This was the original cartoon Trump retweeted this ACROSS THE political spectrum, cartoonists ranging from Lisa Benson (on the right) to Clay Jones (on the left) have turned to a “Trump train” as visual metaphor. But it was a doctored version of Gary Varvel‘s presidential locomotive that was retweeted — and then quickly deleted — by President Trump himself Tuesday morning. Nonprofessionals, of course, will often alter professional visual satirists’ work and push the retrofitted image out into the meme-stream of social media. In this case, though, the doctored work of Varvel, the Indianapolis Star cartoonist, received a torrent of attention after Trump shared it — and the creator was blindsided. “My cartoon in question was drawn in January and has been altered without my permission, which changed the message of my original work,” Varvel told The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs via email. Read more https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...anapolis-star-creator/?utm_term=.908267fbfb1a
