In the spirit of the holidays, I decided to look at this poltical cartoon aimed at Donald Trump. Within the image, Donald Trump is depicted as the iconic Christmas Grinch. Complete with the his signature floppy hairstyle and and puckered- out lips, the cartoon obviously aimed to show the cold-nature of the poltican using allusion and imagery
Obviously, the artist alludes to the classic tale of The Grinich within the cartoon. As per the story goes, the Grinich lived in isolation- distinguished by his hate for everything joyful and an overall grumpy disposition. By comapring the grinich to Trump- he makes the point that his desire to rid all the muslims
is extremeley cold-hearted and hateful. In addition, at the bottom of the page is the phrase, "His Heart Was Too Sizes Too Small." This phrase is iconically tied to the tale, in which the movie declares that the grincihes heart was too small to feel the warmth of christimas. This- combined with the heart x-ray makes it clear that Trump is a hateful, bad bannana.
Not only did the author compare the Trump to the grinich, but the drawing used to compare the two is unflattering to put it niceley. The iconic, biligerent looking face compined with the small heart makes it obvious that the author views Trump in an decidelngly unflattering light.
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