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New Yorker Gives Trump ‘Enablers’ McConnell, Graham, Barr A Humiliating New Job

The magazine calls out three of the president's biggest boosters in Washington.
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The New Yorker magazine has turned three of President Donald Trump’s biggest allies in the Republican Party into his shoeshine boys in next week’s cover image.

The illustration by Barry Blitt shows Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Attorney General William Barr kneeling and polishing the president’s shoes:

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Blitt said he faced one challenge with the portrait: 

Assembling an image with the President’s enablers presented a problem: Who to include, who to leave out? I barely had enough room for the President himself. In any case, I expect there will be other opportunities to draw Devin Nunes, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Sean Hannity, etc., etc., etc. 

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Before You Go

Inside The Minds Of Magazine Editors
(01 of09)
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The New Yorker's art editor Francoise Mouly has a calendar hanging beside her desk that she uses to map out cover ideas. She marks certain weeks with words or phrases as a way to organize cover ideas. Her covers, she tells me, are organized by the seasons.“I think of it as a hallmark calendar,” she says.Mouly will often reach out to several artists with a particular cover idea. She will get some 20-30 sketches by different artists before making a final decision. (credit:Catherine Taibi)
(02 of09)
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Bloomberg Businessweek’s Josh Tyrangiel and Rob Vargas work on the cover design together, and have done so for about five years."We communicate in series of glances and gestures," Tyrangiel jokes. "We just throw some stuff out there. Sometimes the cover line comes first, sometimes the image comes first."“When we know we really got it, we don’t ask anyone else’s opinion," he says. (credit:Bloomberg Businessweek)
(03 of09)
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Time's design director D.W. Pine says that the cover not only represents a moment in time, but also a collective mood or feeling."People look to us for that guidance," he says. "With Ferguson, we chose to present it with a piece of photojournalism. Then people look at it and they say, 'Okay, this is what Time considers to be important.'" (credit:TIME)
(04 of09)
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"We recently did a cover with Joni Mitchell, and I remember someone said to me, 'I love the cover!' And I said, 'Oh you saw it already? It's out in print?' And they said, 'No, I saw it on Instagram,'" New York Magazine's editorial director Jared Holt recalls. “The cover gains life before the magazine is even physically available." (credit:New York Magazine)
(05 of09)
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One New Yorker cover that drew particular backlash was the 2000 mother’s day image by Carter Goodrich. The illustration showed two women sitting on a park bench: one holding her children and the other holding her briefcase. Both women sit staring at the other."We got this torrent of protests from both sides," The New Yorker's Françoise Mouly says. "People saying, 'How can you say women should work and not have children' and the other saying 'How can you say women should just have children and not work?' But the artist wasn’t saying what women should do, the artist was presenting a dialogue. It’s up to you as a reader to resolve it." (credit:The New Yorker)
(06 of09)
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REMEMBER WHEN: Talk magazine's 1999 premiere issue broke the mold and experimented with multiple cover images rather than just one. (credit:Talk)
(07 of09)
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Businessweek's creative director Rob Vargas can still remember the iconic Rolling Stone covers he had as a teenager."I remember being young and just really appreciated being immersed into this world that the magazine created," Vargas says. "A cover is like a fixed moment in time. It's a different kind of thing." (credit:Rolling Stone)
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Wired editor-in-chief Scott Dadich says his favorite Wired cover of all time is the "Pray" cover from June, 1997."I remember seeing that cover on the newsstand and welling up with tears it was so intensely emotional," he says. (credit:WIRED)
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There is a great sense of mutual respect within the magazine business. New York Magazine’s Jared Holt said Businessweek’s covers have become both “influential” and “inspiring.” Businessweek's Tyrangiel, said he has “admiration and jealousy” for New York Mag’s editor-in-chief Adam Moss, calling out the magazine’s Hurricane Sandy cover as one that showcases Moss’s “unbelievable eye, taste and timing.” (credit:New York Magazine)
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