Matt Drudge, editor and founder of the influential Drudge Report, on Thursday accused liberals in the news media of having a “fetish” for President Trump experiencing injury or even death.
“The Left’s continued fetish for Trump’s physical harm/death is stunning…,” Drudge wrote in a tweet on Thursday, with the latest cover of New Yorker magazine attached.
The cover depicts a cartoon image of Trump who is face down at the bottom of what looks like the escalator in his Trump Tower building in New York.
Trump’s head in the cartoon appears to have splattered across the floor, though he is still giving a thumbs up gesture.
The Left’s continued fetish for Trump’s physical harm/death is stunning… pic.twitter.com/npGSbgkqnt
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) July 19, 2018
The cartoon, by Barry Blitt, is described in the magazine as “physical humor.”
“A little more than three years ago, Donald Trump descended an escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for the Presidency,” the description said. “That image makes a return in Barry Blitt’s latest cover, which remarks on Trump’s performance during and after his summit with Vladimir Putin, in Helsinki. We recently talked to Blitt, who’s now drawn Trump dozens of times, about his work and his love for physical comedy.”
