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There’s been plenty of fireworks to go around recently, between Trump’s combative rhetoric and Congress passing a controversial budget that cuts taxes and Medicaid.

Thankfully this week we get fun fireworks added to the mix as we celebrate our country’s birthday, despite our founders believing we’d all be eating burgers and drinking beers on July 2.

While this week’s top ten list is dominated by the holiday, our most-reprinted cartoon mocks the hapless Democrats, where the fireworks are between the party’s young activists and old guard.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Gary McCoy

#3. Bruce Plante

#4. Jonathan Brown

#5. Bob Englehart

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. R.J. Matson

#9. John Darkow

#10. R.J. Matson

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

You again?

That was the punchline of Bruce Plante’s funny cartoon about our old advisory Iran being in the news again, thanks to President Trump’s unilateral decision to bomb nuclear sites within the country.

Our sudden and apparently short-lived conflict with Iran (on behalf of Israel) garnered a lot of interest from editors, as most of our top cartoons this week touched on the topic. “I hate sequels!” complained a woman in John Darkow’s cartoon about Iran, while Rick McKee had Trump painting a massive bomb with the message, “Now is the time for peace.”

While most of the focus was on Iran, our most-reprinted cartoon of the week came from out of left field, pun intended – a Dodgers-themed cartoon involving a baseball fan with an encyclopedic memory forgetting his wedding anniversary.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Dave Whamond

#2. Bruce Plante

#3. Dave Granlund

#4. John Darkow

#5. R.J. Matson

#6. Rick McKee

#7. Chris Weyant

#8. Chris Weyant

#9. R.J.Matson

#10. Harley Schwadron

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

Artificial intelligence continues to dominate the headlines, with the controversial technology being pushed more and more into our daily lives.

One new feature among our robot overlords might be embarrassment, according to Dave Whamond’s funny cartoon this week that was a hit among editors.

In addition to doing work, AI programs are also becoming more and more involved on the hiring process, as Jeff Koterba pointed out in this week’s second most-reprinted cartoon.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week, none of which were drawn by a computer:

#1. Dave Whamond

#2. Jeff Koterba

#3. Jonathan Brown

#4. R.J. Matson

#5. Dave Whamond

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Jonathan Brown

#8. Dave Granlund

#9. Jeff Koterba

#10. Margolis & Cox

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

Beware of everything.

That was the warning in Chris Weyant’s widely-reprinted cartoon this week, which seemed to hit a nerve with readers thanks to its broad relevance. Beware Trump’s government, which has deployed troops into an American city. Beware facts after Robert F. Kennedy fired all the vaccine experts on an important CDC advisory panel. Beware stability as Trump’s tariff plans continue to bounce all over the place.

Pat Bagley underscored Weyant’s cartoon with a call to protest, comparing anti-Trump protesters hitting the streets across the country to demonstrators massacred in Tiananmen Square in China in 1989. I also enjoyed R.J. Matson’s cartoon about a future civilization visiting the ruins of American democracy, destroyed by Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Pat Bagley

#3. Dave Granlund

#4. John Darkow

#5. Harley Schwadron

#6. R.J. Matson

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. John Cole

#9. Dave Whamond

#10. Dave Granlund

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

Trying to keep up with news out of Trump’s White House is a Herculean task even the nation’s top cartoons have a hard time pulling off.

Chris Weyant touched on the madness in our most-reprinted cartoon this week, which features a dizzy trade representative nauseous over the administration’s ever-changing tariffs.

R.J. Matson’s cartoon about the national debt, appropriately represented by the Grand Canyon, hit Trump as he tries to push his “big, beautiful” budget bill through the Senate. His former billionaire buddy Elon Musk isn’t helping by calling the bill a “disgusting abomination,” in part because it’s projected to add trillions of dollars to the federal debt.

After their recent dust up, you’ll see plenty of Musk vs. Trump cartoons in the coming days. For now, here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. R.J. Matson

#3. Gary McCoy

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. Monte Wolverton

#6. Dave Granlund

#7. Chris Weyant

#8. John Darkow

#9. Bruce Plante

#10. Harley Schwadron

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

Economic uncertainty. Continued inflation. Medicaid cuts. Crackdowns on universities across the country. The internet being filled with AI slop.

Boy, the new seems grim and relentless. Which is why Monte Wolverton’s cartoon about the search for a glimmer of good news struck a chord with editors this week, topping our list of the most-reprinted cartoons.

Jeff Koterba also tapped into the unease over the economy in a cartoon about the death of the penny, which shockingly costs almost 4 cents per penny to make. Unfortunately, they will only increase the need for nickels, which run 14 cents each. Add that to the list of depressing news items.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Monte Wolverton

#2. Jeff Koterba

#3. Dave Granlund

#4. Gary McCoy

#5. Rick McKee

#6. Dave Granlund

#7. Chris Weyant

#8. R.J. Matson

#9. Chris Weyant

#10. John Cole

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

The Republicans in the House passed their “big, beautiful” budget this week, which has led to a lot of uncertainty among business owners and just about everyone else who doesn’t own a MAGA hat. Will it explode the deficit? Will it lead to a recession? Will the stock market crash?

Our most popular cartoon of the week came from the pen of Ed Wexler, who isn’t only one confused by the bill’s focus on spending cuts and borrowed money to help the wealthiest Americans the most.

R.J. Matson’s cartoon on the bill (and more specifically, Moody’s downgrade) got a chuckle from me. As did Chris Weyant’s cartoon about RFK Jr. inability to discern fantasy from reality.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Ed Wexler

#2. R.J. Matson

#3. Margolis & Cox

#4. Bruce Plante

#5. John Darkow

#6. Chris Weyant

#7. Bob Englehart

#8. Bob Englehart

#9. Jeff Koterba

#10. Margolis & Cox

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

It was a wild week filled with a lot of news, which included Pete Rose being posthumously unbanned from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Trump defended his decision to accept a $400 million luxury airplane from Qatar.

But our two most-popular cartoons of the week were on wildly different subjects – A.I. and the new pope.

Rick McKee drew our most-reprinted cartoon of the week, which featured a high school graduate’s dependence on ChatGPT, a popular A.I.-powered chatbot that can also create cartoons and steal jobs.

Our second-most reprinted cartoon was Pat Byrnes’ funny cartoon on Pope Leo XIV, the first-ever American pope whose Chicago origins became the fodder for some funny pieces of art.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Rick McKee

#2. Pat Byrnes

#3. Daryl Cagle

#4. Rick McKee

#5. Dave Granlund

#6. Monte Wolverton

#7. R.J. Matson

#8. Dave Whamond

#9. Dave Granlund

#10. John Darkow

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

Sunday is Mothers Day, in case you needed a reminder. So this week’s list of our most reprinted cartoons features a number of pieces celebrating the mothers of America.

But our most popular cartoon of the week was a poke against relentlessly high grocery store prices, drawn by John Darkow. I’m not optimistic things will get much cheaper anytime soon, especially with Trump’s tariffs on deck. That’s good for cartoonists and bad for everyone else.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. John Darkow

#2. Dave Whamond

#3. Dave Granlund

#4. Dick Wright

#5. Gary McCoy

#6. Chris Weyant

#7. Bruce Plante

#8. John Darkow

#9. Jonathan Brown

#10. Pat Bagley

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com

The U.S. economy shrank in the first quarter this year, but don’t blame Trump’s tariffs or all the uncertainly created by his administration during his first 100 days in office. No, according to Trump, this is still the economy of Joe Biden, who hasn’t been president for more than three months.

Our most-reprinted cartoon this week, drawn by Dave Granlund, shows a middle class family alongside other endangered species. Another popular economic cartoon came from Dave Whamond, who knew exactly where to put a cartoon of eggs in the jewelry store.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Dave Granlund

#2. Dave Whamond

#3. Bruce Plante

#4. Chris Weyant

#5. Dave Whamond

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. Bob Englehart

#9. Dave Whamond

#10. Daryl Cagle

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com