Magazine Cover Showing Trump Beheading Lady Liberty Sparks Anger An...

A cover of a magazine, 'Der Spiegel', showing Donald Trump holding Lady Liberty's truncated head in one hand, with a bloody knife in the other, has sparked furor and anger all over the world.

And to add insult to the injury, the cover drawing is in the style of Jihadi John, the notorious ISIS killer, who had held a similar pose which had become familiar to the world after he had brutally butchered his victims.

And the image on the cover is accompanied by Trump's slogan during the elections: "America first".

The cover of the latest issue of the magazine, Der Spiegel [Photo Source]

Interestingly, the cover designer is Edel Rodriguez, a Cuban political refugee in the US, who told the "Washington Post" newspaper that he was prompted to channel his anger into the piece of art following Trump's visa ban, and he said,

It's a beheading of democracy, a beheading of a sacred symbol, and clearly, lately, what's associated with beheadings is ISIS, so there's a comparison. Both sides are extremists, so I'm just making a comparison between them.

While Many Americans have welcomed the cover as a reflection of how the rest of the world views the new US president, some of those who don't generally sympathize with Trump's politics, see the cover as going too far, even potentially damaging the integrity of the magazine's journalism.

In December 2015, after Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” the New York Daily News pictured him beheading
the Statue of Liberty. [Photo Source]

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Magazine Cover Showing Trump Beheading Lady Liberty Sparks Anger And Debate