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Nearly five months into Donald Trump’s second term, he is not only increasingly turning America into an autocracy with his endless stream of abuses of executive power but also squandering significant amounts of taxpayer money while he’s at it. For the cover of the June 23, 2025, issue, the artist David Plunkert set out to visually depict one of the President’s latest oversteps, his parade to celebrate the Army’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary, which happens to fall on his seventy-ninth birthday, on June 14th, and which will cost as much as forty-five million dollars. Images can be good vehicles for irony. “The Washington Monument standing tall in the background is a granite counterpoint to Trump’s party hat,” Plunkert said.
For more covers by David Plunkert, see below:
“Blowhard”
“October 1, 2017: One Day in a Nation of Guns”
“Putin’s Tracks”
Find David Plunkert's covers, cartoons, and more at the Condé Nast Store.
Sourse: newyorker.com
