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Political Cartoon Analysis

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Sam Abraham 12/6/18 The political cartoon that I chose to analyze features Trump holding a bazooka labeled "trade war" attempting to fire on China. The back blast, however hits a Trump voter taking off their head. This is meant to represent the tariffs and trade war that he started with China. The cartoon portrays the trade war as an ill-conceived plan that does nothing to China while simultaneously hurting his own voter base. The cartoon indirectly also portrays Trump as incompetent or unaware. He is confused and ends up firing the bazooka and hurting one of his voters directly while apparently doing very little to China. Indirectly, the cartoon portrays him as unable to act in a productive way to help the people who voted for him in the real world. When portraying this the author exaggerates Trumps features, especially his yellow blond hair. This is to create a strong image in the viewer's mind of Trump next to a headless Trump voter so that above all else the ta