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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!
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
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
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
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'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