fable

Amodei AI Wealth Timeline Shows Rapid Rise and New Risks
Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com
The four-panel timeline tracks Dario Amodei from 2021 Anthropic founding through 2023 Claude profits to 2026 Fable and Mythos releases. Bottom text notes company valuation, model capabilities for security flaws, and resolved clash with the Trump Administration over access.
Trump Wolf Blows Down Bipartisan Affordable Housing Bill
Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com
On June 25, 2026, cartoonist Rick McKee depicts former President Donald Trump as a wolf blowing down a wooden house marked as a bipartisan affordable housing bill. An elephant and donkey peer out from the damaged structure, one declaring they are not the three little pigs. The image responds to ongoing congressional debates over housing legislation in mid-2026.
The fable, the toast, and the moral
THE FABLE, THE TOAST, AND THE MORAL by Angel Boligan, politicalcartoons.com
Elon Musk DOGE Figure Offers Protection to Federal Workers for Sacrifices
ELON MUSK'S PROMISES TO FEDERAL WORKERS by Alexandra Bowman, CagleCartoons.com
The cartoon shows a large bird figure labeled Elon plus DOGE addressing three mice on a branch. The bird promises protection in exchange for involuntary sacrifices. One mouse labeled MAGA supporting federal workers responds positively and points to another. The image references Department of Government Efficiency efforts and federal workforce reductions under the Trump administration as of April 2025.
Feb
27
2025
Goose with golden eggs proposes dozen trade to chicken
Dick Wright, PoliticalCartoons.com
A goose labeled 24k stands atop a pile of yellow eggs and offers to trade a dozen with a chicken perched on white eggs. The exchange highlights ongoing egg shortages tied to bird flu culls and production losses reported in early 2025.
The POTUS Who Cried Tariff: Trump's Repeat Threats Fall Flat
REPEAT TRUMP TARIFF THREATS BECOME INEFFECTIVE by Graeme MacKay, politicalcartoons.com
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.
Jan
17
2023
Goose Produces Golden Egg as Chicken Faces High Prices
Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com
A goose lays a golden 24K egg while a nearby chicken, surrounded by dollar-marked eggs, calls the goose an amateur. The image draws on the classic fable to comment on egg prices during early 2023 shortages and inflation.
Sep
11
2020
Just a fable
JUST A FABLE by Petar Pismestrovic, politicalcartoons.com
Trump Emperor's New Clothes
TRUMP EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES by Sean Delonas, politicalcartoons.com
Oct
22
2018
Saudi fable
SAUDI FABLE by Arend van Dam, politicalcartoons.com
Oct
22
2018
Saudi fable
SAUDI FABLE by Arend van Dam, politicalcartoons.com
Apr
6
2018
Fake News and Truth
FAKE NEWS AND TRUTH by Paresh Nath, politicalcartoons.com
Feb
5
2017
Trump and the Media
Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com
Ben Carson Pulls Ahead of Donald Trump COLOR
Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com
Ben Carson Pulls Ahead of Donald Trump
Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com
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