It is debatable – and it is, indeed, being debated these days – what US president Donald Trump has actually accomplished in his first 100 days in the White House. What is clear, however, is that the controversial and unconventional Mr. Trump has attracted an unusually large amount of attention from all over the world, even for a newly elected president of the United States of America.
Thousands and thousands of news stories and photographs of Donald Trump have been published on print and online. At the same time, cartoonists from all over the world have been having a ball. They have drawn countless satirical representations of the president’s characteristic features and actions and inactions.
In September last year, Politiken published a special edition of our Sunday section PS to focus attention on Brexit. Cartoonists from 28 countries, one from each EU member state, presented us with their personal vision of a Europe that had come under pressure because of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. Our initiative attracted widespread international attention, and this has inspired us to once again invite cartoonists – this time from all over the world – to mark an event of international interest: Donald Trump’s first 100 days as president. We have asked these cartoonists to portray the world’s most powerful man.
Mange har en følelse af, at verden står et mere usikkert sted med en præsident, der regerer via sin Twitter-konto og et lunefuldt temperament. Men det er vores håb, at tegningerne selv i alvorlige tider kan bidrage med et glimt i øjet, sendt fra alverdens bladtegnere til Det Hvide Hus.
