The New Yorker’s newest cover is both brutal and inevitable. “It” was rebooted as a franchise this year, and the Joker still won’t die. American Horror Story’s latest season “Cult” stars Sarah Paulson as a woman with numerous phobias, among them a fear of clowns that intensifies after Donald Trump is elected president. With plenty of backlash from even his own party, Trump has been thought of as a scary joke. Now the New Yorker features Trump on their cover just in time for Halloween as a menacing clown. The cover, entitled “October Surprise” was painted by Carter Goodrich.
“My whole life has been disrupted. It’s a national nightmare,” said Goodrich in the New Yorker, calling Trump a “dangerous clown.”
He wasn’t far off from the reaction that Paulson’s character had on American Horror Story on election night.
“I’m still just as stunned now as I was a year ago, on Election Night,” Goodrich said. “I have been asked to work on movies about him. I can’t do it; most satire seems to lighten what feels to me like a dire situation. He’s already a cartoon villain, infantile and strange.”
Twitter, naturally, ate the cover up.
Lawd, the hands Bet this is not how he thought this POTUS and magazine covers would work out https://t.co/iNRyAFa6V3
— Resisting Sherri,PhD (@onlymeindc) October 23, 2017
OMG.
Remember last year at this time, when the scariest thing in America were the clowns hiding in the woods?
New Yorker pegs it. Again. pic.twitter.com/i7p8radG5Z
— Holly O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) October 23, 2017
.@NewYorker cover does it again. Perfect, right down to the clown's tiny hands. #HappyHalloween! pic.twitter.com/gwWrYZWBEk
— Dianne Sherman (@dsherman2407) October 24, 2017
No tweet yet from Trump on the cover, though it’s probably a good bet to say that if he does respond he will be most triggered by those tiny little clown hands.
