This was a banner year for Trump Engagement Syndrome in the cartoon department. Here are some of our favorites.
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Boy, 2025 was a heck of a year! It really turned out to be much worse than I thought was possible. Each morning I woke up to doom-scrolling through one Trump atrocity against our democracy after another. It has been very difficult to process and the future looks pretty bleak at the moment.
Let’s all hope we’re actually at the dawn of a new enlightenment brought on as a reaction to the Tech Bros’ new Gilded Age. We may need a Roaring Twenties in the second half of the decade. Perhaps a new Age of Aquarius, a la the sixties’ hippy culture. Something has to break this authoritarian turn.
Billionaires may have to become extinct.
Donald Trump’s Lies Are Getting More Hurtful Every Day
Trump is like an energy vampire. His lies suck all of the rationality out of the body politic. Read more.
All Our Data and Dollars Belong to Elon Musk
Musk and his band of Gen Z nerds are collecting American citizens’ data in preparation for denying them the benefits they deserve. Read more.
Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / WhoWhatWhy (CC BY-SA 2.0) See complete attribution below.
American citizens will pay the steep price for Donald Trump’s reckless and indefensible actions. Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / WhoWhatWhy (CC BY-SA 2.0) See complete attribution below.
Vladimir Putin Is Applauding the Republican Assault on American Government
What more could Putin want? Destroying America’s government, insulting and threatening allies, and causing a great recession or depression? Read more.
Leavitt: America’s Greatest President Touts His Perfect Cabinet’s Signal Scandal
Karoline Leavitt is scratching her place in history beside the Korean Pink Lady of the news, Ri Chun-hee. Read more.
Donald Trump Admits His Stupid Tariffs Are Going to Ruin Your Child’s Christmas
In revealing comments, Trump says there will be fewer products coming into the US and they will cost more. Read more.
Trump’s Mafia-Style Management Makes Supplicants Prostrate Themselves Before HIM
Here we imagine the behind-the-scenes action where capos bring requests before the Don. Read more.
Elon Musk Claimed DOGE Was Rooting Out Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
You have to understand that Musk has his own definitions for waste, fraud, and abuse. Read more.
Trump Has Empathy for Leaders Like Him Who’ve Been Treated Very Badly
He claims nobody has been treated as badly as he is, but Vlad and Bibi come close. Read more.
Because It Can: The Trump Regime Harms Countless People Around the World
Donald Trump is constantly claiming his Cabinet is doing a fantastic job. What job is that? Destroying people’s lives through corruption, ignorance, and malice? Read more.
The Trump Administration Misuses Christianity to Promote an Agenda of Hate
Stephen Miller screams lies at Americans about the Antifa terrorists as he tries to justify the attack on blue cities. Read more.