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28. i didn't think this was real but it is... from july 2018
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 10:56 PM
Aug 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/07/19/latest-new-yorker-cover-mocks-trumps-comedy-of-helsinki-errors/


“BOTH CHAPLIN and Trump are iconic clowns,” New Yorker cover artist Barry Blitt told Comic Riffs last year, when describing his political spoof of the silent comedian’s classic film “Modern Times.”

Once again, with the magazine’s latest cover unveiled Thursday, Blitt is rendering President Trump as a cartoon buffoon who is still stymied and embarrassed by moving parts.

For the new cover, titled “Thumbs-Up,” Blitt employs a visual callback to when the president-to-be descended a Trump Tower escalator during the event to announce his run for the White House.

In the wake of Monday’s controversial Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Blitt’s visual metaphor depicts Trump as falling face-first at the bottom of the escalator — yet still giving the thumbs-up sign as if everything’s great, terrific, the most fantastic we’ve ever seen.

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Check out this New Yorker cover: [View all] Ocelot II Aug 2024 OP
Wonder if he will frame that one? liberal N proud Aug 2024 #1
That cover is from July 2018 Celerity Aug 2024 #36
Yes MorbidButterflyTat Aug 2024 #43
That's a keeper! RainCaster Aug 2024 #2
She wouldn't be caught dead near that bastard. onecaliberal Aug 2024 #11
I love it!!! COL Mustard Aug 2024 #3
OMG that made me laugh so hard! Demobrat Aug 2024 #4
Down he goes malaise Aug 2024 #5
SPLAT Katcat Aug 2024 #16
Bwaaaaah malaise Aug 2024 #35
I love it! llmart Aug 2024 #6
George Conway has a PAC trying to do just that. onecaliberal Aug 2024 #13
Lol Demovictory9 Aug 2024 #7
Delish-a-rooney-pie!!! calimary Aug 2024 #8
Perfect musclecar6 Aug 2024 #9
Splat! dlk Aug 2024 #10
That should have happened on day one. sheshe2 Aug 2024 #12
No kidding. calimary Aug 2024 #45
... sheshe2 Aug 2024 #46
I LOVE it! ❤️ dmr Aug 2024 #14
Priceless... ultralite001 Aug 2024 #15
LOVE IT!!! niyad Aug 2024 #17
Notice the thumbs NJCher Aug 2024 #18
It's Okay,.. everything is okay,.. it's fine,... magicarpet Aug 2024 #26
lol wolfie001 Aug 2024 #34
Still with those fuckin' thumbs up. Conjuay Aug 2024 #19
is it real? barbtries Aug 2024 #20
it's from July 2018 Celerity Aug 2024 #37
thank you nt barbtries Aug 2024 #38
So what? It is perfectly appropriate today. FSogol Aug 2024 #41
I posted because multiple posters appear to think it is new or are questioning if it is real. Celerity Aug 2024 #42
YES orangecrush Aug 2024 #21
Splat. Face-plant. Hekate Aug 2024 #22
K&R spanone Aug 2024 #23
LOL!! ailsagirl Aug 2024 #24
I want to see headlines about the "Floundering Trump Campaign" tclambert Aug 2024 #25
The Overblown Orange Orca BattleRow Aug 2024 #44
we really were traumatized that day. We all remember the escalator. ecstatic Aug 2024 #27
i didn't think this was real but it is... from july 2018 orleans Aug 2024 #28
Hilarious 👍 TommieMommy Aug 2024 #29
"Snort!" electric_blue68 Aug 2024 #30
Nice one ... BlueWavePsych Aug 2024 #31
T'would make a dandy landing mat for an escalator. nt Buns_of_Fire Aug 2024 #32
Fitting end to an idiot. nt akbacchus_BC Aug 2024 #33
Background is humorous Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #39
Splatfall bucolic_frolic Aug 2024 #40
GUFFAW Faux pas Aug 2024 #47
The tie should be rolling up in the escalator steps. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Aug 2024 #48
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