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| New Yorker and Economist covers slam Trump's defence of white supremacists | New Yorker and Economist covers slam Trump's defence of white supremacists |
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| Magazines show Trump blowing wind into a Ku Klux Klan sail and shouting through a KKK megaphone | Magazines show Trump blowing wind into a Ku Klux Klan sail and shouting through a KKK megaphone |
| Oliver Holmes | Oliver Holmes |
| Fri 18 Aug 2017 05.29 BST | Fri 18 Aug 2017 05.29 BST |
| Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 18.39 GMT | |
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| The cover pages of the New Yorker and Economist have criticised President Donald Trump’s defence of a white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. | The cover pages of the New Yorker and Economist have criticised President Donald Trump’s defence of a white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. |
| In an editorial, the Economist said Trump is “politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unfit for office”. | In an editorial, the Economist said Trump is “politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unfit for office”. |
| While it said Trump was not himself a white supremacist, the piece accused him of bungling “the simplest of political tests: finding a way to condemn Nazis”, which had earned him the endorsement of David Duke, a former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. | While it said Trump was not himself a white supremacist, the piece accused him of bungling “the simplest of political tests: finding a way to condemn Nazis”, which had earned him the endorsement of David Duke, a former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| Our cover this week pic.twitter.com/lYD3HLXvSC | Our cover this week pic.twitter.com/lYD3HLXvSC |
| “Mr Trump’s seemingly heartfelt defence of those marching to defend Confederate statues spoke to the degree to which white grievance and angry, sour nostalgia is part of his world view.” | “Mr Trump’s seemingly heartfelt defence of those marching to defend Confederate statues spoke to the degree to which white grievance and angry, sour nostalgia is part of his world view.” |
| A similar New Yorker cover, titled “Blowhard”, presented Trump in a boat blowing wind into a sail shaped like a Ku Klux Klan hood. | A similar New Yorker cover, titled “Blowhard”, presented Trump in a boat blowing wind into a sail shaped like a Ku Klux Klan hood. |
| An early look at next week's cover, "Blowhard," by David Plunkert: https://t.co/VuBXtwJCUQ pic.twitter.com/zsDHVOBBQO | An early look at next week's cover, "Blowhard," by David Plunkert: https://t.co/VuBXtwJCUQ pic.twitter.com/zsDHVOBBQO |
| “President Trump’s weak pushback to hate groups – as if he was trying not to alienate them as voters – compelled me to take up my pen,” said David Plunkert, the artist behind the issue. | “President Trump’s weak pushback to hate groups – as if he was trying not to alienate them as voters – compelled me to take up my pen,” said David Plunkert, the artist behind the issue. |
| Unpublished Trump cover sketch art from 2016 pic.twitter.com/qrBFzAhq4p | Unpublished Trump cover sketch art from 2016 pic.twitter.com/qrBFzAhq4p |
| “A picture does a better job showing my thoughts than words do; it can have a light touch on a subject that’s extremely scary,” said the artist. | “A picture does a better job showing my thoughts than words do; it can have a light touch on a subject that’s extremely scary,” said the artist. |
| The president took two days to condemn the KKK and neo-Nazi protesters, eventually saying hate groups were “repugnant”. | The president took two days to condemn the KKK and neo-Nazi protesters, eventually saying hate groups were “repugnant”. |
| But in an anti-media diatribe on Tuesday in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, he reeled back, defending far-right protesters at the Charlottesville rally and laying the blame for the violence equally on what he called the “alt-left”. | But in an anti-media diatribe on Tuesday in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, he reeled back, defending far-right protesters at the Charlottesville rally and laying the blame for the violence equally on what he called the “alt-left”. |
| The president said there were “very fine people on both sides” of violent demonstrations in which a white nationalist allegedly killed civil rights activist Heather Heyer when his car ploughed into a crowd in the Virginian city. | The president said there were “very fine people on both sides” of violent demonstrations in which a white nationalist allegedly killed civil rights activist Heather Heyer when his car ploughed into a crowd in the Virginian city. |
| Self-identifying ethno-nationalists had gathered to protest against the planned removal of a statue of Robert E Lee, the Confederacy’s top general in the American civil war. “You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly,” Trump said. | Self-identifying ethno-nationalists had gathered to protest against the planned removal of a statue of Robert E Lee, the Confederacy’s top general in the American civil war. “You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly,” Trump said. |
| Video of the far-right group in Charlottesville showed men chanting “Jews will not replace us”. | Video of the far-right group in Charlottesville showed men chanting “Jews will not replace us”. |
| Time, another New York-headquartered magazine, did not put Trump on its front cover but showed a person in thick, black boots and draped in a United States flag giving the Nazi salute. | Time, another New York-headquartered magazine, did not put Trump on its front cover but showed a person in thick, black boots and draped in a United States flag giving the Nazi salute. |
| TIME’s new cover: Behind the hate in America https://t.co/Rxq9hsPWC1 pic.twitter.com/ARE67Xbrnw | TIME’s new cover: Behind the hate in America https://t.co/Rxq9hsPWC1 pic.twitter.com/ARE67Xbrnw |
| • This article was amended on 18 August 2017 to clarify a reference to the reasons for the protests in Charlottesville. | • This article was amended on 18 August 2017 to clarify a reference to the reasons for the protests in Charlottesville. |
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