[Magdalen] New Yorker

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 16:38:36 UTC 2018


I believe it's meant to signify that the Emperor has no clothes.....

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:55 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> I was unprepared for this week's New Yorker Magazine
> cover.  While I've learned over the years never to be
> surprised, I must say that this week's cover with a
> totally nude Trump standing in for SH Sanders and fielding
> questions by the White House news corps.  Complete frontal
> nudity is avoided by the strategic placement of the
> podium.  His tan/sunburn lines are well marked, as though
> he had just stepped off the golf links at Mar a Lago.
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> I'm not aware that this cover has much to do with any
> article in the New Yorker, but the display certainly
> suggests the esteem, or rather the lack of esteem for
> the President evident by this publication that is much
> beloved by a large segment of the USA population,
> including me.
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> Could this cover have been imagined with any USA
> President before the present incumbent?
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> David S.
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