German magazine, Der Spiegel is sparking a fierce debate after depicting
US President Donald Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty on its front
cover. The illustration by Edel Rodriguez, who arrived in the US as a
political refugee from Cuba in 1980, has prompted both positive and
negative reactions across the world.
Rodriguez's image shows a cartoon Trump holding a bloodied knife in his
left hand with the statue's head in his right, while blood drips onto
the floor. The magazine cover comes amid anger and protests around the
world over Trump's travel ban. The controversial order banned foreign
nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for
90 days, suspended all refugee entry to the country for 120 days and
indefinitely suspended entry for Syrian refugees.
"It's a beheading of democracy, a beheading of a sacred symbol,"
Rodriguez told the Washington Post. He said he drew a link between ISIS
and Trump, adding that "both sides are extremists, so I'm just making a
comparison between them."
Last November, Rodriguez, also drew a Trump illustration for the cover
of Time Magazine during the 2016 campaign, without adding facial
features.
"That's the way I see him," Rodriguez told the Washington Post. "I see
him as someone that's very angry, and it's pretty much his mouth that's
moving all the time, so that's how I tend to show him in some of my
work."
Read some comments 'for and against' the depiction of Trump below:
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