Posted on 02/05/2017 7:06:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
German news magazine Der Spiegel sparked controversy Saturday with a cover depicting US President Donald Trump holding the severed head of the Statue of Liberty in one hand and a bloodied knife in the other.
The weekly used for its front page an image by US-Cuban artist and political refugee Edel Rodriguez with the Trumpian slogan “America first” next to it.
“On our cover the American president beheads the symbol which has welcomed migrants and refugees to the United States since 1886, and with democracy and freedom,” Spiegel’s chief editor Klaus Brinkbaeumer told German news agency DPA. […]
Liberal conservative broadsheet Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, for its part, warned that if the media demonized Trump, that could play into his hands. “The Spiegel cover is just what Trump needs — a distorted image of him which he can use to further his own distorted image of the press,” it said. […]
Conservative daily Die Welt, which like Bild belongs to the Axel Springer publishing group, criticized the Spiegel cover for “devaluing journalism.” …
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Absolutely disgusting. He is protecting the very Liberty they insult!!!
They’re entitled to there opinion.
They are also entitled to shove their opinions up their fuhrer bunkers.
“their” opinion
They seem to think our President is a more of a threat than the machete wielding terrorists of ISIS they want parading theirs and our streets!
It’s crap like this that makes me question who our real “allies” in Europe are. I vote Hungary and Poland.
If he’s not dressed as Hitler, this is pointless.
Germans know a thing or three about destroying Liberty.
I wonder what would happen if there was an equivalent one depicting the “cultural enrichment” of an average German - while Merkel watches - by one of the “refugees” she welcomed.
That is, a truthful response the Spiegel’s lie.
The Mona Lisa was originally supposed to be muslim....as was the St. Louis arch: 
and the Washington Monument: http://i.imgur.com/n86335Q.png
If I recall correctly, Germans have been content on a number of occasions to destroy liberty, to the extent they ever had it. As the brains and brawn behind the EU, they are doing it again. It isn’t as spectacular as the Third Reich, just a gray, faceless, liberty-killing bureaucracy.
No German has any room to lecture anyone about liberty.
Germans go Jihad. Cut head off old French woman.
I don’t see them as an ally. And they treat countries like Hungary and Poland terribly. Can’t stand the E.U.
It’s so twisted backwards.
These liberals are dead to reality.
Islamists actually do this. They don’t even seem to realize where they got the imagery from.
They murdered Charlie Hebdoe who may have done such a response.
I am half German and my surname is German. I have always been glad that my great-grandparents, now resting in a small cemetery surrounded by a Illinois cornfield, had the sense and desire to leave Germany behind.
...US-Cuban artist and political refugee Edel
Rodriquez...
Who he? Refugee from where? For what cause?
Germans lecturing us about liberty is quite a laugh.
Nicht wahr?
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