Last week, President Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., attended two days of confirmation hearings. The nominee’s opinions on abortion and vaccines were closely questioned. Questions concerning Medicare and Medicaid tripped him up.
Sens. Measles, Polio, Smallpox, and Disinformation all voted in favor of RFK Jr., with Bill Bramhall leading the editorial cartoon gallery. Kennedy is placed inside a vial marked “vaccine against medical innovation” by Michael Ramirez. Kennedy, according to Jack Ohman, has company at the hearing room table in the form of all the strange rumors that have come to light since he entered the presidential race.
Trump’s executive orders and actions provided yet another week of sipping from the fire hose. A $3 trillion government spending freeze was the first step, causing havoc until a judge delayed the order. It’s unclear if Trump’s offer of buyouts to federal employees who agree to resign is legal. More than a dozen inspectors general, who look into fraud and malfeasance, were fired by the president. In the past, he pushed to end government-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
When a commercial airplane and an Army Blackhawk chopper collided at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., killing 67 people, Trump drew DEI into the fray. The president blamed diversity in hiring for the catastrophe without providing any evidence. By depicting the Titanic sinking and a person in a lifeboat yelling (expletive) DEI, Nick Anderson parodies it.
The emergence of Deepseek, a Chinese AI chatbot that is faster than American-made ones, the rising cost of eggs despite Trump’s pledge to lower them, and additional responses to billionaire Elon Musk’s stiff-armed greeting are among the other subjects covered in this week’s gallery.
Mike Luckovich, Steve Breen, and Michael Ramirez of Creators Syndicate, as well as 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, drew the cartoons.
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