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In today’s featured cartoon, Christian Adams depicts US President Donald Trump piloting an air force jet and dropping a bomb on 2020, with reference to the US air strike in Baghdad on 3 January in which Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed.
Ingrim Pinn depicts Trump launching his 2020 re-election campaign by escalating fights with Iran and North Korea.
Bob Moran invokes the American culture of the 1920s to predicts that the 2020s will be a real decade of ‘warring’, thanks to Trump.
Adam Zyglis puns on the New Year tradition of the ‘ball drop’ at New York’s Times Square to depict Father Time dropping the climate crisis-riddled Earth on the newborn year 2020, as an hourglass runs out in the background.
Peter Brookes puts the spotlight on the unprecedented bush fires that continue to ravage parts of Australia as a result of climate change.
With Boris Johnson re-elected as Prime Minister, Dave Brown highlights that it’s going to be a ‘new dawn’ for the United Kingdom as well.