Editorial cartoons for June 8, 2025: Trump-Musk fight, budget impact, Ukraine drone strikes

The combustible egos of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk ignited last week in a firestorm of insulting social media posts. Bill Bramhall leads this week’s editorial cartoon gallery with a reference to the Hindenburg disaster, replacing reporter

Herb Morrison

’s

dramatic narration

“Oh, the humanity!” with “Oh, the inanity!”

Musk began to sour on Trump after the president pulled a Musk ally out of the running for head of NASA,

The New York Times reported.

The head of Space X and Tesla also urged Republicans in the Senate to kill the GOP House budget bill because it would raise the federal deficit by $3 trillion. Musk also criticized the president’s tariffs.

Other comments on Musk include Dana Summers referring to Trump taking revenge on his Tesla; Jack Ohman commenting on reports of Musk’s drug use while head of the Department of Government Efficiency; and Mike Luckovich and Bramhall depicting his disenchantment with the budget bill named “Disgusting Abomination.” Joey Weatherford equates clucking about the deficit with Chicken Little’s refrain, “The sky is falling.”

Luckovich, Ohman and Drew Sheneman take aim at Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who answered a constituent’s question about cuts to Medicaid by saying,

“We are all going to die.”

Ernst later apologized in a

sarcastic video

filmed in a graveyard.

Editorial cartoonists also comment on Ukraine’s surprise drone attack deep inside Russia; Federal Emergency Management Agency head David Richardson’s so-called joke about not knowing there is a hurricane season; Trump’s bans on international students and visitors from 17 countries, including former U.S. ally Afghanistan; Trump pardons; and the

autopen controversy

dogging former President Joe Biden.

Cartoons were drawn by Jack Ohman, Nick Anderson, Bill Bramhall, Dana Summers, Drew Sheneman, Scott Stantis, Walt Handelsman, David Horsey, Phil Hands, Joel Pett and Joey Weatherford of Tribune Content Agency; and Mike Luckovich, Steve Breen and Michael Ramirez of Creators Syndicate.

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• Editorial cartoons for May 18, 2025: Trump’s Qatar jet, Democrats adrift

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