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Stock Market Roller Coaster! The BEST Political Cartoons!
By CM Chaney · May 21, 2025
The stock market has been a wild ride this year as the Trump Administration has gotten off to a shaky start! Here are the best political roller coaster cartoons!
Trump's Necktie Turns Stock Market into Wild Roller Coaster Ride
Jeff Koterba's cartoon depicts Trump in a suit, his red necktie extending into a looping roller coaster track. A car labeled 'STOCK MARKET' carries diverse passengers with raised arms, expressions of shock and thrill, suggesting volatility. Cagle Cartoons
Market Madness: Bull and Bear Ride the Volatile Stock Rollercoaster Amid Tariffs
The cartoon shows a rollercoaster car marked 'Market Madness' diving steeply, carrying two human figures with wild hair and open mouths, a black bull with horns looking concerned, and a brown bear clutching red tickets. This setup captures stock market volatility, with the bull and bear as classic symbols of rising and falling markets. Cagle Cartoons
Biden's Wild Ride on America's China Policy Roller Coaster
Jeff Koterba's cartoon shows a massive, angry dragon emblazoned with 'China' hovering threateningly over a chaotic roller coaster track. Below, a wide-eyed figure resembling Biden, topped with a stars-and-stripes hat, grips a cart labeled 'China Policy' as it dives steeply downward. Cagle Cartoons
Wild Ride: Government Crises and Wall Street Volatility in Koterba's Cartoon
Jeff Koterba captures the chaos of 2018 politics in this roller coaster cartoon, where riders plummet down red tracks, their faces twisted in alarm. The speech bubble from one passenger confuses the 'govern by crisis' ride with the 'Wall Street' ride, tying into tags like government shutdown, Congress, and stock market. Cagle Cartoons
Trump Gang's Wild Ride on Plunging Stock Market
Alexandra Bowman's cartoon captures the stock market turmoil under Trump policies, showing caricatures of Trump, Elon Musk, and JD Vance gleefully riding a rocket down a crashing graph line marked with IRAs, stocks, 401ks, and pension funds. Cagle Cartoons
Stock Market Roller Coaster: Erasing the Upswing in Wild Ride
Bruce Plante's 2018 cartoon captures the stock market's wild ride on a roller coaster plunging steeply, with passengers in panic. A giant pencil labeled 'market upswing' erases the upward track, highlighting Wall Street volatility and the erasure of gains. Cagle Cartoons
Trumpism Roller Coaster: Conservatives Brace for the Ride
Paresh Nath's 2017 cartoon shows a roller coaster track spelled out as Trumpism, with a car labeled conservatives carrying elephant-headed figures starting the ride. The speech bubble warns to get ready for a ride, highlighting the ups and downs expected in the Trump era. Cagle Cartoons
Oil Prices Take a Roller Coaster Plunge in Luojie's Sharp Cartoon
Luojie's 2016 cartoon captures the fall of oil prices through a roller coaster metaphor, where a barrel labeled 'OIL PRICES' hurtles down steep tracks. Arms clad in various attires—suit sleeves, keffiyeh, plaid shirt—stick out, gesturing wildly with thumbs up, pointing fingers, and a steering wheel. Cagle Cartoons
China's Bear Market Sends Global Economy on a Wild Roller Coaster Ride
Peter Broelman's 2015 cartoon depicts a chaotic roller coaster labeled global economy, where a large panda bear marked China is falling off the top, its angry expression highlighting the bear market plunge. Cagle Cartoons
Investor Dreads the Stock Market Roller Coaster Ride
Jeff Koterba's cartoon shows a boy eagerly pulling a reluctant older man toward a roller coaster entrance, where the tracks twist like stock market graphs. The boy urges 'Aw, C'Mon, Dad!!' while the man exclaims he's an investor, not up for the ride. Cagle Cartoons
Trump Confuses Tree Branch for Soaring Approval Rating in Satirical Cartoon
Malcolm McGookin's cartoon captures Trump polls in a humorous light, showing the former president gazing at a tree branch outside a window that mimics an upward approval rating graph, complete with small leaves. Meanwhile, an aide in a suit points to a wall chart with a red line plummeting downward, labeled under tags like stock market and tariffs. Cagle Cartoons
Trump's Trade War Sends Market Searching for Bottom in McKee Cartoon
Rick McKee's cartoon captures the chaos of Trump's trade war, with a red graph line soaring then crashing down, arrow pointing to a caricatured Trump dropping his pants and shouting 'TAKE THAT!!' The quote from Peter Navarro about the market trying to find its bottom plays on the double meaning, highlighting stock market turmoil from tariffs on Chi Cagle Cartoons
Trump's Tariffs Send Stocks Plunging in New Direction
Harley Schwadron's cartoon captures Trump in a suit, arm raised, pointing to a stocks chart showing a sharp decline, with the label 'STOCKS' and a downward line. An older woman points a stick at him, perhaps in a briefing room with a Capitol building visible through the window. Cagle Cartoons
Trump's Trade Wars Tank 401Ks, Eyes Musk for Social Security Assault
The cartoon shows a caricature of Trump perched on a sharply declining red line labeled 'Stock Market,' with a speech bubble declaring, 'Now that we've hurt your 401Ks - Lets have Musk go after your Social Security!' This visual satire ties into ongoing debates about trade war, tariffs on Mexico, Canada, EU, and China, and their impact on retiremen Cagle Cartoons