This cartoon captures Elon Musk kneels solemnly beside the grave of the EV Mandate now a casualty of shifting political winds. With poetic grief, he lays flowers at the tombstone, whispering, “You charged too close to the sun, my sweet policy.” ELON is holding a bouquet of electric car adapters.

Meanwhile, President Trump screeches in circles around the graveyard in a gas guzzling monster of a vehicle, exhaust curlingss. His burnouts are amazing. The custom license plate reads “ BYEBYEV,” a final nail in the coffin.

This cartoon questions the cost of disruption, the impermanence of policy, and the fragility of political alliances

Like Icarus, the cartoon suggests, even billionaires can fly too close to the ideological sun.The feathers are melted..

It’s satire with bite..

By Maria

Political cartoonists since 2016