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TexasTowelie

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Tue Dec 27, 2016, 02:49 AM Dec 2016

A Roundup of Trump Covers From Papers Around the World (DIAL-UP WARNING)

Many media outlets across the country reacted with shock, disbelief, and a certain amount of despair to the election of Donald Trump.

Some newspapers, particularly in foreign countries, responded with headlines that ranged between mildly insulting and incredibly inflammatory - with cover images to match.

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A newspaper from Iceland weighed in on Trump, and its depiction of Trump was no less graphic or unflattering: Trump as a gas-expelling hind end in a suit.



German newspaper Der Spiegel had already made its views on Trump known, calling him "The World's Most Dangerous Man" in a February op-ed.

Once he won the election, they riffed on Time Magazine's "Meltdown" cover with their own garish take on Trump's head: a meteor hurtling toward the Earth with the caption "The End of the World (As We Know It)."



Another German paper, Die Welt, inserted Trump's head into the Sun in a riff on the movie poster for "Apocalypse Now":



Read more: http://www.attn.com/stories/13536/roundup-trump-covers-papers-around-world

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A Roundup of Trump Covers From Papers Around the World (DIAL-UP WARNING) (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2016 OP
Germans really got this down MFM008 Dec 2016 #1
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