The New Yorker has gone after U.S. President Donald Trump with withering satire all year, so the magazine wasn’t going to pull any punches after the commander in chief’s “on many sides” rhetoric in the wake of last weekend’s violence in Charlottesville. “Trump and KKK on the cover of the New Yorker? It has come to that,” New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly told The Post of the magazine’s latest cover art, “Blowhard.”“We can’t let the images be too timid,” she continued. “When the president of the United States equivocates on matters of hate and xenophobia, artists should not.”Read the latest news on U.S. President Donald TrumpThe unequivocating person behind the new piece is first-time New Yorker cover artist David Plunkert, who notes that he seldoms draws political subject matter, but was moved to do so given the White House’s response to the protest and tragedy.

Source: thestar August 18, 2017 17:15 UTC