The New Yorker's new cover imagines Trump as an unsettlingly creepy circus clown

The New Yorker's new cover
(Image credit: The New Yorker)

It's possible that when artist Carter Goodrich set out to design this week's cover of The New Yorker, he didn't mean to craft an image that would haunt your dreams. But alas, that's precisely what he did:

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.