By Rebecca Stewart

Weekly German news magazine Der Spiegel is facing criticism over its latest front cover, which features Donald Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty.

The powerful cartoon shows the president wielding a knife and holding up Lady Liberty’s severed head, with the illustrator Edel Rodriguez saying the image represents “the beheading of democracy.”

Underneath the drawing, a caption reads: ‘America First’ in reference to one of Trump’s go-to election campaign mantras.

The strong condemnation of the politician has divided opinion in Europe and the US. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, the German vice-president of the European Parliament described it as “tasteless”, while the Read full story ›

Source: The Drum