President Donald Trump Political cartoon Madison Square Garden nyc

For An AUDIO DESCRIPTION of this political cartoon, me in my own words and voice: https://open.substack.com/pub/mariagrasmick/p/dont-awaken-the-jaguar-but-the-lion OR Click on photo: There are screenshots there of my references, and my sketches early on.

VIDEO PROCESS TIMELINE You can see my screenshots of this story and time lapse of me drawing. Why “51 Signatures” Matters In October 2020, 51 former U.S. intelligence officials signed an open letter. This group included John Brennan. They claimed the Hunter Biden laptop story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”…

“The iTribute” – Trump, Cook, and the $600B Bar In “The iTribute,” political cartoonist Maria Grasmick, I, capture a real life moment of surreal symbolism: Apple CEO Tim Cook presenting a 24-karat gold bar to President Donald Trump during a White House event on August 7, 2025. The cartoon dramatizes the exchange, showing Cook offering…

SOURCE SOURCE PROCESS I drew him from the speech below. In this cartoon, the Panama Canal is reimagined as a toll booth, with Trump holding the key , a metaphor for the 1977 treaty that handed control over to Panama. The toll collector, a Panamanian official, demands hefty fees, prompting Trump to quip, “Well, if…

I loved it. I had to do my tribute. Its beautiful!