Political satire illustrations from August 10, 2025: A comparison between Donald Trump and statistical data, revisiting the controversy over Texas electoral district boundaries, and the sudden halt in vaccine distribution.
In the sweltering summer of 2025, editorial cartoons across various publications took aim at President Donald Trump, focusing on several controversies that dominated the headlines. Themes connected to Jeffrey Epstein and other political distractions were recurring motifs in these cartoons, which were featured in The Week's daily political cartoon collections.
Jack Ohman, a renowned cartoonist, skewered Trump for his claim, in the context of a lewd birthday card to Epstein, that he did not know how to draw. Bill Bramhall portrayed potential successors to the BLS commissioner as eager to please the president, although there were no explicit cartoons addressing the firing of the commissioner within that timeframe.
Mike Luckovich's cartoon showed a bunch of states at the starting line of the "Great 2025 Redistricting Race," and also pointed out the hypocrisy of Republicans who fled Washington rather than vote on releasing the Epstein files. The same week, Ramirez depicted Texas cowboys rounding up Democrats instead of longhorn steer, reflecting the ongoing fight over redrawing Texas electoral maps to give Republicans an advantage.
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, was commemorated on its 80th anniversary, but the Democratic Party found itself mired in the doldrums. The week's other big story involved the Justice Department giving kid-gloves treatment to Ghislaine Maxwell, an Epstein co-defendant. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. canceled $500 million in contracts for mRNA vaccine research, adding another layer of complexity to the political landscape.
Walt Handelsman referenced "Sharpie-gate," where Trump allegedly redrew the path of a hurricane on a map, while Luckovich depicted the U.S. economy as a jet in a dive, with Captain Trump threatening to fire the flight attendant. Nick Anderson's cartoon offered a more subtle critique, showing a "skinny" mirror reflecting Trump with some accurate statistics.
The theme of this week's gallery was "Editorial cartoons for Aug. 3, 2025: South Park satire, Trump trade war, EPA's turnabout." These cartoons, while not explicitly highlighting the BLS commissioner firing incident, provided a satirical commentary on Trump's handling of the controversies that dominated the news cycle.
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- Despite the ongoing political turmoil surrounding the controversy involving Jeffrey Epstein and the Trump administration, the entertainment industry found room for satire, as seen in the South Park satire on President Donald Trump's trade war and the EPA's turnabout, topics that also dominated general-news headlines.
- While cartoonists made their thoughts clear on various political matters, such as Trump's claim about his inability to draw and the Republican hypocrisy in the redistricting race, they also touched on crime-and-justice issues, like the Justice Department's lenient treatment of Ghislaine Maxwell, an Epstein co-defendant, which stirred debates across the country.
