German magazine sparks furor with image of Trump beheading Statue of Liberty

[OKIsItJustMe]

Source: Reuters

World News Sat Feb 4, 2017 6:04am EST
German magazine sparks furor with image of Trump beheading Statue of Liberty
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German weekly magazine Der Spiegel sparked controversy at home and abroad on Saturday with a front cover illustration of U.S. President Donald Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty.

It depicts a cartoon figure of Trump with a bloodied knife in one hand and the statue's head, dripping with blood, in the other. It carries the caption: "America First".

The artist who designed the cover, Edel Rodriguez, a Cuban who came to the United States in 1980 as a political refugee, told The Washington Post: "It's a beheading of democracy, a beheading of a sacred symbol."

The cover set off a debate on Twitter and in German and international media, with Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, a member of Germany's Free Democrats (FDP) and vice president of the European Parliament, describing it as "tasteless".

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-germany-spiegel-idUSKBN15J0EU

[ailsagirl]

1. tasteless is what he is

[Warpy]

4. Good, maybe it'll wake up a few prissy people

to what this maniac is trying to do to our country.

[ailsagirl]

5. I think-- I hope-- it is rapidly becoming evident

There's no way whatsoever to salvage him, either-- he's toast

[Warpy]

7. No, I said before in that Republicans would be like Sysiphus

trying to control his idiocy and his outbursts, maybe a little success at the bottom of the mountain but more and more resistance the longer they try. It will be an entirely thankless job working anywhere near him and turnover will be high. His history of over the top retribution against anyone who crosses him will keep them unemployed, so most will start writing books about him.

The der Spiegel cover is spot on, IMO, about what he intends to do to this country. I doubt he'll be allowed to and the resulting mess in our government will be amazing to watch.

They won't control him, ever. As a desperate act of self preservation, they'll have to get rid of him somehow.

Hence, my avatar.

[triron]

13. Hope you mean Trump!!

Pile of shit though is not very tasteless.

[Girard442]

2. Well of course its tasteless.

Can you think of a tasteful way to describe this clusterfuck?

[burrowowl]

21. I agree!!!!

I sure can't!

[HassleCat]

3. This will be like the Charlie Hebdo incident.

Trump will issue a fatwa, and a bunch of Blackwater thugs will shoot up the offices of der Spiegel.

[ailsagirl]

6. Sometimes the truth hurts, doesn't it??

[Snackshack]

8. Right on target!

[PSPS]

9. No, it's trump's installation that "sparks furor" everywhere.

Whatever "controversy" they are referring to, if any, is entirely manufactured.

[democratisphere]

10. Purfekt image fur za Fuherer.

[George Eliot]

11. We should pass Lady Liberty on to Canada.

[milestogo]

12. Pretty soon Lady Liberty will look like this.

[disalitervisum]

14. The New York Daily News cover

for Wednesday, December 9, 2015, is almost the same picture, with a headline about how no one spoke up when he came for someone else, and finally got to you.

I have the pic but I don't know how to post it here.

[Cha]

16. I found it.. and was able to embed the tweet..

Link to tweet

Thank you, disalitervisum.. and welcome to DU.

[Cha]

15. It's starkly real.. the image of trump is too kind.. he doesn't

look like that.

[paleotn]

17. A perfect analogy.

Hat's off to Der Spiegel!

[Little Tich]

18. Great cover - it reflects my own feeling perfectly. n/t

[Blue Idaho]

19. Where do I get the T Shirt? nt.

[Marthe48]

20. Exactly

Hats off to the head's off