‘It’s a beheading of democracy’: Magazine sparks furore with image of Trump holding severed head of Statue of Liberty


  • World
  • Sunday, 05 Feb 2017

US President Donald Trump is depicted beheading the Statue of Liberty in this illustration on the cover of the latest issue of German news magazine Der Spiegel. Photo: Handout.

BERLIN: German news magazine Der Spiegel has sparked controversy with a cover depicting US President Donald Trump holding the severed head of the Statue of Liberty in one hand and a bloodied knife in the other.

The weekly used for its front page an image by US-Cuban artist and political refugee Edel Rodriguez with the Trumpian slogan “America first” next to it.

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