Old as the Hill

Old as the Hill

An aging Congress, dragging diplomacy, and more

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This cartoon depicts an elderly man with a hunched-over back and glasses using a walker to go down the stairs of the Senate building. The etching on the wall near him reads, “God’s Waiting Room”.

Bill Bramhall / Copyright 2026 Tribune Content Agency

This cartoon depicts a dove of peace frantically and unsuccessfully attempting to pull a large truck labeled “Diplomacy in the Middle East” down a desert road as missiles fall and are stuck in the ground with the flags of Israel, the United States, and Iran.

Paresh Nath / Copyright 2026 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.

Donald Trump watches the funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei on television and says, “My funeral will have a much larger crowd size…” Signs in the crowd on TV read, “We will Kill You” and “Kill Trump”. Trump holds a sippy cup labeled “Islamic Republic of Japan” and eats McDonald’s french fries.

Clay Jones / Copyright 2026 Claytoonz

A man and woman sit on a couch. The man looks and listens to a cell phone and the woman has a laptop computer. A voice from the phone says, “McConnell is hiding with bigfoot and Elvis…” The man says, “Who would actually believe these crackpot conspiracies?” The woman responds, “Speaking of brain dead…”

Michael Ramirez / Copyright 2026 Creators Syndicate

Lindsay Graham arrives at the gates of heaven with a golf bag and leans on a club. Saint Peter speaks to him and says, “We know you like to find the biggest personality in the room and insinuate yourself! Be careful, God’s got a great BS detector!”

John Darkow / Copyright 2026 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.

A man hands a manuscript to a female book publisher at a desk. The man says, “You said, ‘Write what you know.’ It’s a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Harley Schwadron / Copyright 2026 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.

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