Thread: New Yorker Cover Depicts American Presidents' Reactions to Trump

Monday, January 25, 2016 12:46 PM

By: Cathy Burke

The New Yorker magazine's latest cover depicts a political cartoonist's vision of five of America's greatest presidents' watching GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump with looks of dismay and alarm — including a caricature of George Washington slapping his hand to his face.


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This week's cover, “Bad Reception,” by Barry Blitt: http://nyer.cm/0iHR29B
4:08 AM - 25 Jan 2016


"In most historical portraits, Presidents are noble and dignified," cartoonist Barry Blitt says of his cover, titled "Bad Reception," which was tweeted out Monday.

"My biggest challenge was to alter the Presidents' expressions to make them reflect attitudes of consternation."

The presidents drawn were John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Washington.

Roosevelt's signature cigarette-in-a-holder is seen popping out of his mouth, Lincoln's eyebrows are squeezed up, and Kennedy is drawn tearing into a package of antacids as they crowd around a TV to watch Trump.

"Teddy Roosevelt generally looks angry and somewhat appalled, so he was the easiest," Blitt says, the magazine reports.

Twitter posters piled on – both for and against the rendering.

One writes Trump:


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@NewYorker Donald Trump is building a wall around the offices of the New Yorker as we speak.
4:55 AM - 25 Jan 2016


While another laments:


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@NewYorker, so, does this mean that the Presidents are big fans of Hilliary? Give us a break.


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So are we to assume they like Ted Cruz better? I think that's a big plus for Trump.

Oh, I thought that was the reaction of five of America’sgreatest presidents’ after seeing what Obama and the Congress have done for thecountry over the last seven years and the way we have allowed big money to buyour government and politics.

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So are we to assume they like Ted Cruz better? I think that's a big plus for Trump.

I'm sure the New Yorker finds both men equally despicable. More than like they decided to pick on Trump because he is a New Yorker, born and bred.