{"id":59180,"date":"2017-02-06T04:50:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T04:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=59180"},"modified":"2017-02-06T04:50:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T04:50:47","slug":"trump-beheads-statue-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/trump-beheads-statue-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Beheads Statue Of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">German news magazine Der Spiegel sparked controversy Saturday with a cover depicting US President Donald Trump holding the severed head of the Statue of Liberty in one hand and a bloodied knife in the other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weekly used for its front page an image by US-Cuban artist and political refugee Edel Rodriguez with the Trumpian slogan &#8220;America first&#8221; next to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;On our cover the American president beheads the symbol which has welcomed migrants and refugees to the United States since 1886, and with democracy and freedom,&#8221; Spiegel&#8217;s chief editor Klaus Brinkbaeumer told German news agency DPA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-59181\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170204T105721Z_1_LYNXMPED13078_RTROPTP_4_USATRUMPGERMANYSPIEGEL.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Beheads Statue Of Liberty\" width=\"513\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The image, which shows an orange face featureless save for a wide-open mouth, was seized upon for discussion by other media outlets in Germany and beyond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bild tabloid saw a direct parallel with Mohammed Emwazi, the British national known by the pseudonym &#8220;Jihadi John&#8221;, who was seen in several videos showing the beheading of Islamic State hostages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to Bild, the vice-president of the European Parliament, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff of Germany&#8217;s liberal Free Democrats, slammed the image as being in &#8220;bad taste&#8221; and one which &#8220;plays on the lives of terror victims in a very nasty manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-59182\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8247c226199bb22af47cdd48e49bd95e5932e97a4b488e470f56166935c51647.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Beheads Statue Of Liberty\" width=\"662\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8247c226199bb22af47cdd48e49bd95e5932e97a4b488e470f56166935c51647.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8247c226199bb22af47cdd48e49bd95e5932e97a4b488e470f56166935c51647-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Liberal conservative broadsheet Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for its part warned that if the media demonised Trump that could play into his hands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Spiegel cover is just what Trump needs &#8212; a distorted image of him which he can use to further his own distorted image of the press,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German news magazine Der Spiegel sparked controversy Saturday with a cover depicting US President Donald Trump holding the severed head of the Statue of Liberty in one hand and a bloodied knife in the other. 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