A controversial Buffalo News cartoon showed a MAGA hat-wearing flood victim in Texas amid criticism of liberal media figures politicizing the disaster.

Zyglis' cartoon has been widely criticized online. Michael Kracker, the chair of the Erie County Republican Committee, posted the image on X, formerly Twitter, describing it as vile.

US News NY paper’s ‘vile’ political cartoon appears to mock Trump-voting Texas flood victims By Lindsay Kornick, Fox News Published July 10, 2025, 7:44 a.m. ET ...

In the cartoon, a man submerged in the water wearing a MAGA hat held up a sign that said “help.” A floating text box in the water read “gov’t is the problem not the solution.” ...

"DISGRACE: @TheBuffaloNews runs a VILE cartoon by artist Adam Zyglis, appearing to mock Texas families affected by the floods because they voted for Trump," Libs of TikTok wrote.

Uproar over newspaper's 'disgusting' cartoon mocking Texas flood victims as Trump supporters By SOPHIE GABLE Published: 21:01 EDT, 9 July 2025 | Updated: 08:16 EDT, 10 July 2025 ...

An event in support of local reporting was postponed after death threats against a journalist for his newspaper editorial cartoon about the catastrophic flooding in Texas, according to a union. An ...