The cartoon depicts Donald Trump emerging from a large pink brain while an orange oil pump jack labeled Ai drills into it. Trump gestures upward and shouts Drill, baby, drill. The image responds to ongoing 2025 discussions about artificial intelligence development and energy policy by merging Trump's signature energy slogan with AI extraction imagery. The visual places the pump jack directly atop the brain to suggest resource extraction from human cognition or data sources. Publication occurred on February 2, 2025, during early Trump administration transition coverage focused on technology and energy priorities.
A political cartoon by Bill Day shows the Earth surrounded by speech bubbles calling for solar power, wind power, an end to deforestation and rising seas. The planet responds with a call to drill baby drill. The image highlights the tension between environmental concerns and fossil fuel extraction. It was published on December 11, 2024.
The September 2024 cartoon by Andy Singer presents three horizontal panels that place a familiar farm activity beside two industrial ones. In the top panel visitors gather strawberries at a pick-your-own stand and carry trays to an SUV. The middle panel shows workers collecting buckets of crude oil beneath drilling rigs and loading them into the same style vehicle. The bottom panel depicts miners pushing carts of coal from a tunnel and dumping the load into the vehicle. The signs read Pick Your Own Berries, Drill Your Own Oil and Mine Your Own Coal. The drawing underscores differences in scale, safety and equipment required for each activity.
