Cartoon / Meme

Catered Media Dinner

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Article in Reuters By Emily Giles, Elwely Elwelly and Melory Ghazi, 8/13/26

Headline:  “Iran’s state media mock Trump over airplane switch, meme shows him hiding in a catering truck”

“. . .Trump and a ​small group of aides used a catering truck to switch from the big blue-and-white presidential aircraft to a smaller, nondescript C-32A jet for the flight out of ​Turkey on July 8, while Air Force One departed separately carrying senior administration officials, White House staff and the [press], according to the first source. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/irans-state-media-mock-trump-over-airplane-switch-meme-shows-him-hiding-catering-2026-08-13/

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Article in The Borowitz Report by Andy Borowitz, 8/13/26

Headline: “Trump Regularly Hides in Catering Truck to Avoid JD Vance”

“. . .Donald J. Trump routinely hides in a catering truck parked outside the White House to avoid talking to JD Vance, Secret Service sources revealed on Thursday.

“According to the sources, when agents see the vice president approaching the Oval Office they immediately activate a silent alarm and hustle Trump out the back door. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.borowitzreport.com/

Student Media Targeted Now?

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Article in FAIR by Hank Kennedy, 7/6/26

Headline:  “Trump Era Repression Trickles Down to Student Press Censorship”

The Wingspan ran a cartoon in January by Aidan McClaren, comparing modern-day actions of ICE with the Palmer Raids against American radicals in the 1920s and the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. The well-known quote from George Santayana appears at the top: ‘Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.’ A bystander observes, ‘Why does this look familiar…?’. . .”

“Within two days, school administrators at Gretna East High School in Omaha, Nebraska, had taken the cartoon off the paper’s website. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://fair.org/home/trump-era-repression-trickles-down-to-student-press-censorship/

Infowars Joins Comic Section

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Article in Variety by Todd Spangler, 4/20/26

Headline:  “The Onion Says It Has a Deal to Take Over Alex Jones’ Infowars, Plans to Relaunch Right-Wing Site as Parody of Itself”

“Satire site the Onion says that it has — after 17 months legal wrangling — successfully landed a deal allowing it take over Infowars, the right-wing conspiracy-fueled site run by Alex Jones. . .”

“In November 2024, the Onion gleefully revealed its winning bankruptcy-auction bid for Infowars. Jones and his company filed for bankruptcy amid defamation suits the families of victims in the Sandy Hook mass shooting in Connecticut filed against him. The families won judgments in 2022 against Jones totaling $1.4 billion; last fall the Supreme Court rejected his appeal of the verdicts. Jones had repeatedly lied and posited baseless conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook massacre. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/the-onion-deal-taking-over-alex-jones-infowars-1236726130/

2025 – Year in Political Cartoons

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Martin Rowson/The Guardian

Article in The Guardian by Anna Mohdin and Sundus Abdi,12/30/25

Headline:  “Tuesday briefing: A surreal year in news gives our cartoonists endless material”

Subhead:  “In today’s newsletter: Covering everything from Donald Trump to AI, and Gaza to Ukraine, award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Ben Jennings shares his favourite caricatures of 2025, and we share ours too.”

“Good morning. It’s been one of those years where the news cycle felt almost too surreal to caricature. From Jeff Bezos commandeering Venice for his lavish wedding at a time of a growing backlash over inequality, to the spectacle of Donald Trump returning to office for a second term, the material was endless for cartoonists, though often difficult to navigate.  .  .”
Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/first-edition-political-cartoons-of-2025

Media – Laugh or Cry?

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Article in Poynter by TyLisa Johnson, 12/26/25

Headline:  “Here are your favorite Poynter journalism memes from 2025”

Subhead:  “We laughed. We cried. It was a weird time to be a journalist, but comedy helped carry us through.”

“It’s a weird time to be a journalist. Digital news archives are disappearing. Generative AI is giving em dashes a bad name. Layoffs. Consolidations. Buyouts. Burnout. Countless, daily insults from the nation’s most powerful people. At the same time, the work to share truth and report the news is needed now more than ever.

“It’s a nonstop grind, and a nearly nonstop news cycle.

“Well, as the saying goes, you have to laugh to keep from crying . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/poynter-journalism-memes-2025-news-humor-comedy/

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Article in Daily Kos by Brian McFadden, 12/26/25

Headline:  “Cartoon: Incredible global news 2025”

Cartoons by Brian McFadden

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/26/2359573/-Cartoon-Incredible-global-news-2025?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web

How to Respond to Reporters?

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Article in the New Republic by Greg Sargent, 11/110/25

Headline: “Trump Press Sec Seethes as Epstein Spin Falls Apart in Briefing Fiasco”

Subhead:  “As Karoline Leavitt’s responses to the latest Jeffrey Epstein revelations go awry, a media observer explains why the MAGA disinformation machine’s treatment of this scandal is more unnerving than usual.”

“. . .The upshot: White House spin looked comically awful throughout. Leavitt flashed anger at other points, accusing reporters of ignoring serious crimes and of being dishonest about Trump’s militarization of Washington, D.C. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://newrepublic.com/article/200234/trump-press-sec-seethes-epstein-spin-falls-apart-briefing-fiasco

Where Legacy Media Dare Not Go

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Article in Comic Sands by Amelia MAvis Christnot, 7/28/25

Headline: ” ‘South Park’ Creators Reveal How They Got Uncensored NSFW Joke About Trump On Air”

“While speaking at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed how they were able to expose MAGA Republican President Donald Trump’s alleged micropenis on the season 27 premiere of their Comedy Central cartoon.”

“The much-anticipated return of South Park—after a two-year hiatus—took on the show’s bosses at Paramount over the decision to settle a frivolous lawsuit with Trump over a CBS News 60 Minutes episode for $16 million. The move was criticized as both extortion by Trump and a bribe by Paramount to secure FCC approval for their deal with Skydance Media. . .”

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https://www.comicsands.com/stone-parker-uncensored-penis

Satirical Look at Epstein Media Fallout

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Article in Mediaize by Lawrence Rudmann, 7/26/25

“tRump orders Mattel Corp to cease making woke American Girl dolls depicting negative periods in U.S. history. ‘Our little precious American girls should only be allowed to have dolls representing the classic “all-American, girl next door” image, said tRump. To pacify tRump, Mattel might issue a special ‘Ghislaine Maxwell American Doll.’ ”

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https://mediaize.com/

Check-to-Check Financial News

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Article in The Guardian by Zach Vasquez, 4/12/25

“Check-to-Check Business News Channel offers ‘financial news to regular folk living paycheck to paycheck’. Whereas the S&P means nothing to the hosts or their audience, other signs – such as ‘candy bars are up from ‘sure, baby, to “put that back” ‘, are dire signs. Meanwhile, healthcare spending remains at zero, while millions of Americans are investing in healthcare alternatives such as ‘just lay down, take an Advil, or just pray it goes away’.”

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/13/saturday-night-live-jon-hamm-host

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKznUoQa-I&t=9s

 

Cartoon Kowtowing

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Jon Alsop, 10/10/25

Headline:  “Moderating Content”

Subhead:  “What the genuflection of billionaires means for the press.”

“Before Christmas, Ann Telnaes, an editorial cartoonist at the Washington Post, submitted a drawing that depicted four billionaire media and tech executives and one mouse genuflecting before Donald Trump, shown standing on a garlanded dais. The cartoon, Telnaes wrote last weekend, was inspired by recent reports of “men with lucrative government contracts and an interest in eliminating regulations making their way to Mar-a-Lago” to visit Trump in the wake of his election win in November.

“. . .Meta is not the news media, but its latest policy change will clearly have ramifications for our industry. (For starters, many newsroom fact-checking initiatives have received financial support from Meta, the withdrawal of which is unlikely to be good for their free speech. . .”

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/bezos_zuckerberg_altman_soon-shiong_billionaires_media_telnaes.php