cover ups
May
21
2025
The cartoon illustrates the rollout of a major GOP budget bill nicknamed the big beautiful bill. It shows billionaires in an exclusive club while a tuxedoed figure presents a $3.8 trillion debt scroll to a distressed man holding a please help sign. The piece critiques how tax cuts for the wealthy add trillions to the national debt with costs passed to middle and lower income groups.
Trump's Lawyer Argues War with Democracy Grants Unlimited Powers in Zyglis Cartoon
Trump's War on Democracy Powers
Apr
8
2025
Adam Zyglis draws Trump as a massive figure in military uniform topped with a crown, sporting a 'Presidential Medal of Do What I Want' and an absurdly long red tie, looming over a tiny lawyer in a supreme court courtroom. The judge, labeled 'Supreme Court,' holds a gavel while the lawyer pleads, 'Your Dishonor, my client is clearly at war with democracy, so he can invoke the War Powers Act for everything.' This pokes at Trump's potential use of war powers, alien enemies act, MAGA rhetoric, king-like authority, SCOTUS decisions, deportations, and presidential overreach in a direct, exaggerated style that highlights the absurdity.
Feb
6
2025
The cartoon shows Uncle Sam supine and bloodied with a DOGE-labeled arm impaling his torso. Elon Musk appears as an alien intruder delivering an efficiency promise through the wound. The image responds to the February 2025 launch of the Department of Government Efficiency under the Trump administration. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were tasked with identifying major spending reductions across federal agencies including USAID and Treasury operations. The visual frames those cuts as an external assault on core government functions rather than routine reform.
Graeme MacKay's cartoon reimagines Aesop's fable as 'The POTUS Who Cried TARIFF,' with Donald Trump's exaggerated face shouting on a fiery book cover. Representatives from USA, Mexico, and Canada sit at a table, showing exasperation with speech bubbles like 'Good Grief not him again!' and 'Ugh Repeat flare-up?' The tags USA, Mexico, Canada, trade, diplomacy, tariff, Donald Trump, USMCA, NAFTA, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Aesop, and fable underscore the satire on repeat threats becoming ineffective. This visual pokes at how constant warnings lose impact in international relations.
Feb
2
2025
A February 2025 cartoon depicts supermarket shoppers confronting a sign listing the political price of eggs under President Trump. Items range from functioning government and DEI elimination to J6 pardons, tariff threats, and transgender rights losses. The visual ties everyday grocery costs to recent executive actions and congressional moves since the inauguration.
Jul
31
2024
J.D. Vance appears with a book titled Hillbilly Elegy in one hand and a red magazine titled Couchboy in the other. The image responds to recent attention on the Ohio senator as vice presidential candidate in the 2024 election. References to the book and magazine cover tie into public discussion of his background and personal stories. The composition places the book on the left and the magazine on the right with floating hearts in the background.
Jul
26
2024
The image presents a book cover titled Cave Dweller Elegy as a memoir of misogyny and sexism. The cover shows a bearded man resembling JD Vance in animal print attire holding a club. A figure lies in the background. The work responds to Vance's 2024 vice presidential nomination and earlier public comments on childless women. Publication occurred weeks after the Republican convention where Vance joined the ticket with Donald Trump. The visual ties the nominee's memoir Hillbilly Elegy to new framing around gender topics during the campaign cycle.
Jul
18
2024
Donald Trump appears with a bandaged ear and a white rectangle covering his mouth. Labels indicate a bullet graze on one side and withheld information on the other. The image responds to the July 13 shooting in Butler and subsequent lack of official details from the investigation.
