Trump-Jinping tariff battle and May’s Brexit exit
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Trump-Jinping tariff battle and May’s Brexit exit

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

   

The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.

In today’s featured cartoon, Halifax Chronicle-Herald cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon illustrates US & China locked in an escalating trade battle involving mutual placements of tariff.

Morten Morland | Times UK

Morten Morland for Times UK takes a dig at the resignation of British Prime Minister Theresa May, who called it quits Friday after she failed to deliver Brexit, her country’s withdrawal from the European Union.

 

Harry Burton | The Herald

Harry Burton in The Herald takes a jibe at former London Mayor Boris Johnson who is being seen as the front runner to succeed May.

Al Hirschfeld

Al Hirschfeld pays tribute to Bennett Cerf, the American publisher who founded Random House and who later became a popular panelist on television’s long-running game show, What’s My Line? Cerf’s birth anniversary fell on 25 May.

 

Carlos Latuff | MintPress News

Carlos Latuff for MintPress News depicts John Bolton, US presdient Donald Trump’s national security adviser, as angling for another war. Bolton was a prominent proponent of the Iraq War and recently pushed for a coup in Venezuela.

In this cartoon by Peter Brookes for TheTimes, he takes a look at the ‘milkshaking’ , which has become a new way for harassing politicians. Just recently Nigel Farage, Brexit Party Leader was attacked in New Castle.