Newsweek Depicts a Snacking, Couch Potato Trump on Its New Cover: ‘Lazy Boy’

Since President Donald Trump took office, the major national magazines have taken turns lampooning the 45th president.

This week, it’s Newsweek who is making waves with their cover art. Out front on their latest issue, the magazine depicts Trump sprawled out on a recliner watching television — a soda in one hand, remote in the other. There is a bag of Cheetos set on his lap from which Trump appears to bee feeding himself with varying degrees of success — as there are orange stains all over his shirt. The caption reads: “LAZY BOY: Donald Trump is bored and tired. Imagine how he’d feel if he did any work.”

The accompanying story, written by Alexander Nazaryan, rips the President’s work ethic — or lack thereof.

From the article:

When the weekend concludes, Trump returns to the D.C. swamp with all the enthusiasm of an office lackey slouching toward his cubicle on Monday morning. Only six months in, he seems “a most unhappy warrior,” in the words of Trump biographer and CNN commentator Michael D’Antonio. The scowl that haunts his face, the monotone he uses to deliver official pronouncements: These suggest a second-term lame duck dreaming of a lucrative post-Washington book deal.

[image via Newsweek]

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