Letter: Bagley deserves a big hug for his parody of McNaughton’s ludicrous painting
(Pat Bagley | The Salt Lake Tribune) This cartoon by Pat Bagley titled "Team Trump" appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018.
A big Thanksgiving hug to editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley for his wonderful parody (Tribune, Nov. 25) of the ridiculously heroic painting by Jon McNaughton of a snarling Donald Trump running with a football (Tribune, Nov 22).
Anybody who sees the deeply flawed Trump as a heroic figure has got to have some serious ethical issues himself, not to mention the sheer lunacy of depicting our cheeseburger-devouring president as an athlete.
So thanks to Bagley for the more accurate portrait: Trump as an overweight, greedy bully riding a handicap scooter, while his good buddies Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin cheer him on, and Mohammad Bin Salman lops off the head of an opponent in the background. Pure gold!
Keller Higbee, Salt Lake City
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