New York Daily News’ Dec. 9 cover featured a cartoon Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty.
The cover’s caption read, “When Trump came for the Mexicans, I did not speak out as I was not a Mexican. When Trump came for the Muslims, I did not speak out as I was not a Muslim. Then he came for me …”
Following Trump’s declaration to ban Muslim immigrants from entering the United States, CNN’s Chris Cuomo got heated during an interview and called the plan “stupid.”
The Detroit Free Press denounced Trump’s plan on Dec. 9, with a front-page editorial blasting the GOP candidate’s “vile bigotry.”
After Trump repeatedly interrupted the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Joe Scarborough cut the interview short and demanded the show go to commercial.
The New York Times ran an analysis of all of Trump’s speeches, interviews and press conferences, calling his speech patterns “ominous.”
Several news outlets have blasted Trump’s anti-Muslim immigration plan as bigoted, but the Philadelphia Daily News went as far as to compare him to Hitler on the front page.
NBC News’ foreign correspondent Richard Engel warned on Twitter and on air that Trump’s anti-Muslim statements could have troublesome effect on U.S. relations abroad.
The Huffington Post took a swipe at Trump’s plan for a “full shutdown” of Muslim immigration, declaring the plan “fascist.”
The New Yorker took aim not at Trump, but the media, calling on TV news outlets to hold Trump more accountable for his statements.
