Editorial cartoonists caught up with President Donald Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner after she signed off on a particularly weak jobs report.
Walt Handelsman leads this week’s collection of visual commentary with a reference to “Sharpie-gate,” in which Trump redrew the path of a hurricane on a map. Only this time, the president is making a host of negative statistics more to his liking, from poll numbers to food prices to the number of times he was seen with Jeffrey Epstein.
Nick Anderson piles on with a “skinny” mirror finally showing Trump “some accurate statistics.” Bill Bramhall portrays potential successors to the BLS commissioner as eager to please the president. Mike Luckovich shows the U.S. economy as a jet in a dive, and Capt. Trump threatening