The New Yorker's latest Trump cover is a spooky nightmare
The New Yorker has thrown shade at Donald Trump before, but this week's offering is something else entirely.
The magazine gave us a preview of the cover of its final issue of the month - entitled "October Surprise" - Monday and it's a scary one.
Artist Carter Goodrich's cover art depicts the president as a "dangerous clown," complete with a frilly, striped outfit, clown makeup, over-sized red shoes, small hands, and an evil grin. Goodrich explained in a tweet that he struggled to parody Trump in a cartoon because he is already a "walking, talking cartoon of himself."
The frightening cover will be published just under one year since Trump was elected president.
"My whole life has been disrupted. It's a national nightmare," Goodrich explained to The New Yorker. "I'm still just as stunned now as I was a year ago, on Election Night."
The spooky presidential painting will cover The New Yorker's October 30 issue, just in time for Halloween, and people are ready for it.
Goodrich, who began his career as an illustrator in 1983, also has worked as a character designer on many films, including Despicable Me, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille, according to his website.
"I have been asked to work on movies about [Trump]. I can't do it; most satire seems to lighten what feels to me like a dire situation," Goodrich said. "He's already a cartoon villain, infantile and strange."
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Alison Main is an intern with Real Time. She is originally from St. Louis, but she currently lives in Los Angeles, where she studies Broadcast and Digital Journalism at the University of Southern California. Alison has previously interned at CNN, both with "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon" and with the New York news bureau. The highlight of her journalism career (so far) was serving as political director for USC Annenberg Media during the 2016 election season.
