Shoestring budget

Shoestring budget

50-year mortgages, the Arc de Trump, and more

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This cartoon is drawn in a fairy-tale style and is titled “There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.” It depicts a large, house-sized boot with an old woman standing next to it using a cane. The rhyme continues, “She was only 25 when she took out a Trump 50 year mortgage.”

Rick McKee / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.

This cartoon is titled “Arc de Trump.” It depicts an arch that resembles the Arc de Triumphe in Paris, except this arch is made out of hundreds of boxes overflowing with the Epstein files. Uncle Sam stands nearby looking sad.

Nick Anderson / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency

A donkey and an elephant are thinking to themselves in this cartoon. The donkey holds a newspaper that reads “Dems Cave on Shut-Down” and thinks to himself, “Saves me from ‘no compromises.’” The elephant thinks, “Saves me from killing the filibuster.”

Chip Bok / Copyright 2025 Creators Syndicate

A man in a tie sits in his living room watching TV in this cartoon. The female newscaster on the screen says, “In financial news, stock holders looking for a safe haven bought bonds, and bond holders looking for a safe haven bought stocks.”

Harley Schwadron / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.

This is a wordless four-panel cartoon that highlights the loss of nature. It begins with a calm dryad-like figure that resembles a beautiful woman combined with a tree. The figure holds animals in her hands and birds fly gently by. Over the next few frames, the dryad loses her leaves as buildings and civilization rises behind her. In the final frame, she has lost her natural appearance and resembles a somber, sunken-eyed woman. Communications antennas rise from her and buildings rise in the background. The birds have been replaced by airplanes, drones, and helicopters.

Peter Kuper / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.

The word bubble in this political cartoon is at top left and reads, “We’ve got him now! He’ll never get out of this jam!” The words are coming from a giant jar of preserves that is drawn to resemble Smuckers jam. This jam is called, “He made us all look like schmucks. Not so PURE Epstein Emails.” A small door opens with a creak on the right side, and a smiling Donald Trump walks out an escape hatch covered in jam.

Dave Whamond / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.

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A caricature of Donald Trump holds a chart of food prices incorrectly in this cartoon. It’s turned on its side. He says, “Food prices are going down!”

Bob Englehart / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.