# World opinion of Trump shown in political cartoons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290 "2017-01-27T03:03:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/1 "2017-01-27T03:03:50Z")
This is a [slide show](http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2017/01/international-reactions-to-trump-000707?slide=0) of 17 international cartoons-- worth a look. > [@](#): > > If Trump’s election was a cold splash of water to the American political class, his ascent to the White House might have been even more shocking to our overseas counterparts. International mockery of U.S. presidents seemed to hit its peak during the George W. Bush years, but, if a cursory scan of foreign cartoons is any indication, the surprise Trump presidency could easily break that record… Considering how much The Donald [del]wants[/del] demands to be liked, his people had best keep these away from him. He may push the nuclear button out of thin-skinned, foot-stomping, teary-eyed hurt. Yeah, he’s enough of a big, clueless baby to do that. My faves: [one](http://static2.politico.com/dims4/default/c58ed1b/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F6b%2F69%2Ff93a99344799bd61b11ae67edf06%2F2-michael-de-adder-artizans-canada.jpg), [two](http://static2.politico.com/dims4/default/e5daeaf/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2Fe0%2Ff8%2F71e8dfb448e49c3dee72ea6cb472%2F7-guido-kuehn-germany-cartoon-movement.JPG). The second one would be more accurate if he had his hand on Lady Liberty’s crotch. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/2 "2017-01-27T07:38:15Z")
I don’t get the _Guernica_ one. Who are the other people? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/3 "2017-01-27T08:35:01Z")
Surely it’s unAmerican to care what non-Americans think? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/4 "2017-01-27T09:01:22Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I don’t get the _Guernica_ one. Who are the other people? The topless guy is Putin…not sure who that is on his leash. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/5 "2017-01-27T09:21:39Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > The topless guy is Putin…not sure who that is on his leash. Bashir al-Assad, I suspect. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/6 "2017-01-27T15:31:31Z")
Nice to see Michael de Adder in there. My roommate at university worked with him on the school newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/7 "2017-01-27T16:31:22Z")
I think this [Australian cartoon](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cwz6BHDXEAABskZ.jpg) encapsulates the horror, although I would not be surprised if those with a similar world view as Trump saw it in an opposite light. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/8 "2017-01-27T16:38:10Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > I think this [Australian cartoon](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cwz6BHDXEAABskZ.jpg) encapsulates the horror, although I would not be surprised if those with a similar world view as Trump saw it in an opposite light. Wow. That one says it all. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/9 "2017-01-27T17:13:58Z")
I don’t get #14 (Singapore). What does it mean to have a tie for a tongue? #16 (Brazil) seems like one his followers might agree with, treating the press as the enemy juicers to the good and [del]righteous[/del] Big Orange. #17 (Netherlands) seems to be more about their own politicians being fair weather and changing their own views to match his. None of them is willing to keep their own hair. Finally, I’m not sure why they didn’t translate Kompromat in #6 (Russia), which seems to basically just be saying he somehow keeps dodging all the attacks on him. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/10 "2017-01-27T19:04:21Z")
Whew. Now that a couple of people have expressed their dislike of Trump he is surely going to turn the Presidency over to Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/11 "2017-01-27T20:09:51Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > World opinion of Trump shown in political cartoons > > This is a [slide show](http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2017/01/international-reactions-to-trump-000707?slide=0) of 17 international cartoons-- worth a look. Those don’t appear to be the world’s opinion of Trump. Or the people of the world’s opinion of Trump. They do appear to be the opinion of several select political cartoonists. I’m amazed at how poorly the cartoons are drawn. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/12 "2017-01-27T20:13:35Z")
This [Dutch video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc) has been going viral this week. > [@](#): > > A satirist from the Netherlands offers this answer: a video using Trump’s own words to “welcome” him to the country. > > “Zondag Met Lubach,” the country’s news satire show, has released a fake tourism video “introducing” Trump to their “tiny country” using the bombastic language the U.S. president loves so much. “It’s gonna be a great video,” host Arjen Lubach promises. > > As bucolic shots of windmills and canals flash on screen, a narrator speaks of the Netherlands’ language (“We’ve got the best words. All the other languages failed.”); Ponypark Slagharen (“You can grab them by the pony”) and Afsluitdijk, a “wall” built to keep out the “water from Mexico” (a.k.a. the ocean). ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/13 "2017-01-27T20:18:02Z")
So Europeans prefer left-wing American presidents to right-wing American presidents. What a surprise…NOT. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/14 "2017-01-27T20:22:03Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > #17 (Netherlands) seems to be more about their own politicians being fair weather and changing their own views to match his. None of them is willing to keep their own hair… No, that cartoon shows the leaders of the big xenophobic demagogue political parties of some European countries, all with Trump-like hair to show their similarity to Trump. Geert Wilders, the Dutch Trump, has been in Dutch politics for 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/15 "2017-01-27T20:22:52Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I don’t get #14 (Singapore). What does it mean to have a tie for a tongue? > > #16 (Brazil) seems like one his followers might agree with, treating the press as the enemy juicers to the good and [del]righteous[/del] Big Orange. > > #17 (Netherlands) seems to be more about their own politicians being fair weather and changing their own views to match his. None of them is willing to keep their own hair. > > Finally, I’m not sure why they didn’t translate Kompromat in #6 (Russia), which seems to basically just be saying he somehow keeps dodging all the attacks on him. I took #17 to depict the growing nationalism and rise of “Trump-like” politicians in Western Europe. I assume the woman in front is supposed to be Marine Le Pen ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/16 "2017-01-27T20:26:27Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > So Europeans prefer left-wing American presidents to right-wing American presidents. What a surprise…NOT. They do, but the scale on which they dislike Trump is unprecedented. Much like in the US. Trump is weekly front page news over here. The Netherlands watches in fascinated horror. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/17 "2017-01-27T20:39:49Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > The Netherlands watches in fascinated horror. As we all do. More horror than fascination, I’m sorry to say. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/18 "2017-01-27T20:40:47Z")
[Still my personal favorite.](http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb377/MindsEyeWatering/Trump.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/19 "2017-01-27T20:58:15Z")
Most of the world viewed [Dubya Bush unfavorably](http://www.pewglobal.org/2008/12/18/global-public-opinion-in-the-bush-years-2001-2008/) and [Obama favorably](http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/06/29/as-obama-years-draw-to-close-president-and-u-s-seen-favorably-in-europe-and-asia/). I would have assumed that Trump would therefore be reviled, but, since the world seems to be turning on its head, I will now be looking with keen interest at the next worldwide opinion polls of Trump to gauge the strength of the re-surgence of hard- and far-right sentiment. As well as global elections, of course. Also, cartoonists are probably inherently more likely to be left-leaning - and therefore anti-Trump - since creative, artistic and innovative people tend to be liberals and politically on the left. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290/20 "2017-01-27T21:03:26Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > [Still my personal favorite.](http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb377/MindsEyeWatering/Trump.jpg) I was hoping it would be that one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-opinion-of-trump-shown-in-political-cartoons/778290.md?page=2)