New Yorker Cover Features Presidents Facepalming While Watching Donald Trump

[Cali_Democrat]

In the cartoon, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and George Washington sit around a television watching Trump give a speech. All five are dismayed at what Trump is saying; Washington can be seen facepalming while Teddy Roosevelt crosses his arms and growls at the screen.

“In most historical portraits, presidents are noble and dignified,” cartoonist Barry Blitt told the magazine. “My biggest challenge was to alter the presidents’ expressions to make them reflect attitudes of consternation.”

“Teddy Roosevelt generally looks angry and somewhat appalled, so he was the easiest,” he added.

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[Suich]

1. Perfect!!!

[lpbk2713]

2. JFK is reaching for his antacid.

They all seem to be collectively saying "Can he be serious?" or "Is this what we have come to?"

Good for them they are not here to see what has become of their country.

[Voice for Peace]

3. Lincoln looks so sad...

[elias49]

4. I love me some New Yorker covers!

So often, hit the nail squarely!

[libdem4life]

5. Masterful. A Keeper. No magazine does covers like the New Yorker.

[yuiyoshida]

6. They should be all face palming

Trump...bleh.

[zentrum]

7. Hate to rain on this

…parade but Washington was a slave owner, Lincoln was against slavery but extremely prejudiced against African Americans, FDR whom I love in all other ways put Japanese Americans in camps and didn't want to let the refugee ships full of Jews land in America, though he eventually relented.

Trump is the ugly face of a lot of historical realities that go all the way back to the roots of the country. I loathe Trump and the RW and we must defeat them, but the country as a whole has a lot of work to do.