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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Beheading? It seems that Muslim culture really is taking hold in Germany.
US out of Germany and out of NATO. Becoming Islamist Satanic hell holes. Target them with nukes in about 20 years.
Same for me. In my case it is grandparents who came over, now resting in a huge cemetery surrounded by Queens and Brooklyn. Like you, I'm very glad they "got on the boat!"
Precisely.
:D
Wow, its deja vu all over again. The NY Daily News had a similar cover on 12/9/15. Using a scimitar, no less!!!
Its still in the FR archive...
Wow, just discovered Prez Trump is 50% German, and is only the 2nd generation after his immigrant grandparents. What rich irony!!
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