Sunday, August 20, 2017

Magazine covers depict President Trump as warmonger, KKK member and mental patient

President Donald Trump has taken a lot of flak from the media for his saber-rattling comments towards North Korea and his confounding statements about the violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va.
What follows is a sampling of magazine covers depicting Trump since the last installment in my series on the subject on July 23.
Der Spiegel showed Trump wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood for its Aug. 19 cover to illustrate his alleged tacit support for alt-right, white supremacist groups.
The Economist showed Trump speaking into a megaphone that looks like a KKK hood for its Aug. 19-25 issue.
The New Yorker illustrated Trump blowing into a KKK sail to pilot a boat for its Aug. 28 issue.
The July issue of New Republic showed Trump as a mental patient in a straitjacket. The cover story was titled “The United States of Crazy: How Trump has turned us into a nation of crackpots and conspiracy theorists.”
The Aug. 5-11 issue of The Economist put the faces of Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. The cover line stated “It could happen.”
Newsweek put a general’s helmet on Trump for its Aug. 25 to Sept. 1 issue. The cover story was titled “Ready for … War?”
In other recent issues, Bloomberg Businessweek depicted Trump’s media influence, New Republic linked Trump to the Russian mafia, and Newsweek focused on Trump’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Also, Newsweek called Trump “Lazy Boy” for his perceived lack of accomplishments in office.











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