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Bent Trumpeter
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So, was trying to create a political cartoon every day here in the upside down; made it to 100 days before needing a break. Will resume intermittently and post cartoons made by real cartoonists, too, as we all try to cope with this fresh hell
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Cartoon by Brendon Loper, The New Yorker
Press conference of Senate Democrats. The one at the podium says, Let this be a reminder, when they go low, we cave.
November 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Cartoonist Paul Duginski, CagleCartoons.com.
color sketch trump sitting on trunk labeled EPSTEIN and seeping fumes and bats. He says THIS THING IS A GREAT BIG DEMOCRAT HOAX.... EXCEPT FOR ANY STUFF IN IT THAT'S ABOUT DEMOCRATS
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Cartoonist John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune:
color sketch showing an aircraft carrier near a buoy with a sign pointing to Venezuala. Word balloon reads: ATTENTION! OPERATION DISTRACTION FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES WILL NOW COMMENCE! THAT IS ALL...
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Our Senator Tim Kaine's new book. Fixed it.

#Kaine #Virginia #Senate #RVA #DemsAlwaysCave
cover of Senator Tim Kaine's memoir Walk Ride Paddle showing him grinning seated on a canoe at a river. I overlaid the words Quite Give Up Lie Down over the title.
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Cartoonist Ruben Bolling:
4 panel cartoon titled Letters Home from the Second Civil War, showing soldiers in body armor with rifles guarding DC, Chicago, Portland, and LA, caption is letters home from one guy, fave being the last panel where he notes that "the enemy doesn't even realize it's engaged in a war."
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Cartoonist Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Free Press:
color sketch showing shoulder of someone in a gray t-shirt, with two stickers. One says I VOTED. The other says YOU'RE WELCOME
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Not a political cartoon, unless you go in for obvious metaphors, but shout-out to brilliant comics artist Jim Steranko on your 87th birthday.

This cover art from your magnificent Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD run:

#comics #marvel #JimSteranko
full-page from Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD comic drawn by Jim Steranko. Fury in full weaponized spread-legged glory poses brandishing two pistols, on an a wildly op-art B&W collage featuring a target, a gun, a motorccle, the Statue of Liberty, a scary guy in shades, etc.
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Not a political cartoon, unless you're into obvious metaphors, but on this #Halloween let's remember the brilliant comics artist Bernie Wrightson:
B&W drawing in stunning detail of an elaborate 19th Century science laboratory. A beefy skeletal monster grabbing a scientist (Victor von Frankenstein) by the collar on the right.
October 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Cartoonist Clay Bennett of Chattanooga Times Free Press.
color sketch showing empty Trick or Treat basket shaped like a pumpkin. On the handle, the words 119th Congress. Caption reads: Trick. Bennett Chattanooga Times Free Press.
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Cartoonist Nick Anderson, Tribune Content Agency
color sketch showing Trump leaning on a sign reading White House East Wing Demolition, beside him a dump truck collecting debris from the broken building, including papers, one reading Epstein Files
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Sometimes I hate it when life imitates art
color photo screen grab from MCU movie showing a laser beam slicing the White House in half
October 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Today's sign for the No Kings march here in Richmond, Virginia:
Hand-made protest sign in the form of a letter reads Dear Protesters, Thank you!! -- The Future
October 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Cartoonist Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News
color sketch, pedestal of Statue of Liberty, statue gone. Sign on pedestal reads Back in a Bit - Going to a No Kings Protest
October 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Color photo of McDonald's golden arches in city landscape. Text reads: Artist's Rendering Proposed Arc de Trump Washington DC
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Cartoonist Ali Solomon, The New Yorker
B&W sketch showing 3 men with luggage watching an airport tv screen, showing Kristi Noem, who's saying, "it's also the Democrats' fault that your flight is delayed by 3 hours and you'll be seated behind a screaming baby."
October 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Cartoonist Christopher Weyant
color sketch showing a Trump figure sitting in a chair holding a red capsule in one hand, a blue in the other. Title of cartoon is The MAGTRIX. Trump says Take the red pill and live in blissful ignorance. Take the blue pill and I cut all of your federal funding.
October 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Cartoonist Dave Whamond:
color sketch showing a man screaming that the cost of living, everything is going up! A GOP elephant in blue suit and red tie raises a finger and says Not Everything! Behind them a graph showing YOUR WAGES going down a little.
October 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Cartoonist Nick Anderson, Tribune Content Agency
color sketch showing a family of five, all holding assault weapons, posed before a Christmas Tree, with camera on tripod facing them. Tag reads: Republican Politicans. The mom's word balloon reads: "We need to wrap this up. I don't want to be late to my press conference condemning leftists for promoting violence."
October 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Cartoonist Malcolm McGookin:
6-panel color sketch showing a Trump figure poking a scholarly looking Black man in jeans multiple times with his finger. In panel 4, the man pokes Trump back once. Trump shouts INSURRECTION! and in the final panel a bunch of guns appear, pointing at the scholarly Black guy.
October 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Cartoonist Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News
color sketch of Donald Trump's head sliced open just above the eyebrows. Face is scowling, inside the hollow skull the word DEMENTIA. Caption reads "THE ENEMY WITHIN".
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Cartoonist Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune
color sketch showing Trump figure and GOP elephant in mob attire with old-time machine guns. Uncle Sam dead on the floor at their feet, the word GOVT on his back. A shocked donkey in a brown suit represents the Democrats. Trump says, "NOW LOOK WHAT YOU MADE US DO!"
October 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Vintage Army recruiting poster showing a stern Uncle Sam pointing, text reads: I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY, NEAREST RECRUITING STATION. I added WHITE MALE PSYCHOPATHS ONLY NEED APPLY re Hegseth's rant.
October 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Cartoonist Mike Lukovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
September 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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The Trump-Epstein statue "Best Friends Forever" up just briefly on the Capitol Mall.

Plaque read: "We celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his closest friend Jeffrey Epstein.
Life-sized bronzed statue of two men holding hands, seeming to dance or run, on separate plinths, U.S. Capitol dome between them in background. Statue on left of Donald Trump, on right of Jeffrey Epstein. Two people, backs to camera, view them.
September 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Cartoonist Bruce Plante
color sketch showing a pregnant woman with a baby on her lap, reading a document skeptically. Trump in MD coat with red tie draping the floor says, "Trust me. I'm not a doctor but I play one on tv. The woman, reading, asks, "if you get a fever don't take Tylenol... tough it out?"
September 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM