Brutal Cover Of The Economist Mocks President Trump's Charlottesville Comments

NEW YORK, NY — Before he was president, Donald Trump hung a fake copy of a Time Magazine cover on the walls of several of his golf clubs. Now that he's president, he makes the cover of magazines much more frequently than ever before — but many of these are unlikely to be hung with honor in the halls of Trump Organization buildings.

Following Trump's wild Tuesday press conference, when he appeared to draw an equivalence between the white supremacist marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the counter-protesters, The Economist has promoted a brutal cover of its upcoming issue depicting trump using a KKK hood as a bullhorn. (For more information on this and other political stories, subscribe to the White House Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

Let us know what you think of the cover, shown below, in the comments. Does it go too far, or does it capture the spirit of the president's comments?

At the Tuesday press conference, Trump said large groups of counter-protesters at Saturday's rally in Virginia were “very, very violent” when "they came charging with clubs in their hands" to confront the nationalist and Nazi groups that had gathered to protest the removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from a park.

Trump also said there were "some very fine people" on both sides of the protests.

Asked about Sen. John McCain's criticisms of the alt-right, Trump asked the reporter to define the "alt-right." "What about the alt-left?" he asked

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