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Controversial management of the health crisis, demonstrations and riots caused by the death of George Floyd, accusations of fake news on the networks and thundering declarations ... In the middle of campaigning for a second mandate, the difficulties accumulate. And his recent outings on possible remedies against the Covid-19 have earned him a tribute from the cartoonist Nick Anderson. Pulitzer Prize for newspaper cartoons in 2005, former president of the Association of American newspaper cartoonists, he is regularly published by the Washington Post , the New York Times or USA Today .
Drawn on April 23, 2020, the drawing titled The Trump Cult represents a Donald Trump with a very orange complexion, distributing Clorox, a brand of American bleach, like a soup kitchen. On the cauldron, the inscriptions “Kool-Aid” and “Chloroquine” are crossed out with a red line, in order to represent the multiple reversals of jacket of the American president on the question of the coronavirus. In front of him, several hysterical supporters revel in (and choke on) the drink and wear a "MAGA" cap, taken from the famous slogan "Make America Great Again".
The Red Bubble site has marketed products bearing the cartoon "The Trump Cult" by Nick Anderson. Capture Redbubble
The caricature was offered for sale on the Red Bubble site and is available in several products. Prints, t-shirts, mugs or protective masks bearing the image of Donald Trump are available, much to the chagrin of the Republican President. The Guardian reveals that the Trump campaign team has filed a trademark infringement complaint and removed the artwork from the sales site.
In the Daily Kos , Nick Anderson said the lawsuit was about the "MAGA" inscription on the caps of Donald Trump fans. "We live in a strange time when the President of the United States can accuse someone of murder with impunity, while intimidating a private company to remove content that he does not like , " added the cartoonist on Twitter.
Several associations for the defense of freedom of expression, including the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, have stepped up and won their case, by invoking the first amendment before Red Bubble. The brand defended itself by accusing the Donald Trump campaign team of having "hijacked the reporting system" of their site to censor "a political expression protected" by the American constitution .
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The site apologized to the designer and all the products have since been put on sale. "This reveals that the Trump campaign team has set up a systematic search system for content they deem unpleasant ," said Nick Anderson. If it happened to me so quickly, it probably did for others. How much other content has been removed this way on RedBubble and other sites? ”