“We used to live where the United States was a pretty steady country, and now you wake up every day and try to figure out where’s the next fire, where do we have to go, what do we have to try to contain,” the Cuban-born Rodriguez tells Time magazine. “It’s sort of this president that you’re always trying to contain, like a wildfire that’s moving from one place to the other at all times.”
Depicting Trump as a fiery presence is a common cartooning metaphor, of course, whether he’s seen as a flame-haired light upheld by the Statue of Liberty, or as the burning-man matchhead of geopolitics, as Costa Rican artist Arcadio Esquivel drew last month:
On Sunday, Rodriguez shared on social media how he would have rendered the cover art for Wolff’s “Fire and Fury.” He says it was his most retweeted image ever.
And who knows? As we enter Year Two, perhaps the authentic new Time cover could even replace the fake Time covers that have hung at some of Trump’s clubs.
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