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The New Yorker Drops Brutal Trump Cover He’s Absolutely Going To Hate

The New Yorker, on its next cover, has lampooned the president for golfing during wartime.

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The latest New Yorker cover, by Barry Blitt, mocks President Donald Trump for golfing during a war.

The cover, titled “War-a-Lago,” depicts Trump standing up on a moving golf cart, while smoking a pipe, in a way styled to make him look like Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Next to him on the golf cart is Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth:

On the magazine’s website, the cover has the caption “No Nobel Peace Prize in sight.”

“For the cover of the March 16, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Barry Blitt portrays President Donald Trump in his latest guise, as a general heading to war in the Middle East,” the description says. “This all comes after years of promising his voters ‘America First!’ and ‘no more Forever Wars.’ Blitt’s cover image shows the President at his Florida golf resort, standing in his martial golf cart alongside his caddy and Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.”

The phrase “War-a-Lago” has been used before, including in a Vanity Fair story last week about Trump running the war, in part, from his Florida club. Both magazines are published by the same company, Conde Nast.

“At that point, Trump returned to a side room at Mar-a-Lago, the one cloaked in black drapes, to oversee the largest military operation in two decades: the opening strikes of a war with Iran. A few hours later, US and Israeli bombs began to fall, killing the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dozens of top Iranian officials, and, by Tuesday, more than 1,000 civilians, including 181 children under 10, according to HRANA,” the VF story said.

The magazine cover seemed to have been well-received.

Photo courtesy of an Instagram screenshot. 

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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