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Donald Trump’s free fall, according to cartoons
YOU CAN go low or you can go high, but if you’re a cartoonist with mere days left of Trump vs. Clinton, you certainly want to get the most out of what time you have left.
As the campaign’s final month promises to suck up most of the satirical oxygen in the room, a handful of metaphors are coming to the fore.
Numerous cartoonists have decided to hand over their visual to “the grope,” in a PG-filtered nod to the Republican nominee’s lewd back-of-the-Bush-bus hot-mic-ed comments. Christo Komarnitski, for one, depicts Donald Trump going low:
Other artists, such as the left-leaning Darrin Bell, decided to make Trump put a move on the Statue of Liberty:
The right-leaning Nate Beeler, by contrast, renders the statue as her own tower of strength, resilient to any Trump edifice along the American skyline:
Another common theme is the growing rift between Trump and his party. To get that across, John Darkow builds a great wall — and has the GOP “paying for it” politically:
Similarly, Randall Enos has the menacing birds of prey circling the elephant circus:
In a similar vein, Tom Toles has Trump in a free fall, with no political plank to hold him up:
Other cartoonists, such as David Fitzsimmons and Pat Bagley, have chosen to nail Hillary Clinton’s debate face of superiority/confidence/smugness:
And lastly, there is Mike Lester, depicting the Clintons like no one else. It’s a tad graphic, so we’ll let you click here if you want to glimpse the bloody mess. His metaphor registers as an utter original.