'It's the Corruption, Stupid.' New York Mag empiggens Trump
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The issue of New York Magazine that hits newsstands today is, to say the least, provocative. To illustrate the cover story by Jonathan Chait”Corruption, Not Russia, Is Trump’s Greatest Political Liability”the glossy has (with apologies to “The Simpsons”) empiggened the president.
While the image seems designed to provoke the president’s supporters, it’s worth noting that powerful politicans, including presidents, have been rendered as any number of barnyard animals throughout American history, particularly during the heyday of politcal cartooning in the 1800s. And as recently as January Colorado’s Durango Herald published a cartoon of a porcine President Trump. But somehow the use of Photoshop here makes the depiction extra jarring.
Chait’s story begins,
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