IN PICS: German Carnival floats show Trump no mercy

[47of74]

Source: The Local

The floats at Karneval parades across southern and western Germany are known for their biting satire. This year the main target of their derision was only ever going to be one man.

In Düsseldorf one of the central floats on Rosenmontag (Rose Monday) showed US President Donald Trump standing next to French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen, Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders and Adolf Hitler - all of them sporting carefully coiffed blond manes.

The four populist leaders of past and present held a banner reading “Blond is the new brown”.

Another float in Düsseldorf appeared to show Trump raping the Statue of Liberty, while a neighbouring sculpture inverted a controversial recent Spiegel cover by having the Statue of Liberty behead the US President.

Read more: https://www.thelocal.de/20170227/in-pics-german-carnival-floats-show-trump-no-mercy

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God bless the Germans!

[Angry Dragon]

1. the first picture is the best

[Panich52]

8. Google "German carnival images"many more anti-Trump

And a couple pro-Obama

[WhiteTara]

2. Very inventive.

The leaf of democracy being eaten by the caterpillars was the best.

[PatSeg]

3. Whoa!

Perhaps Germany will be added to the travel ban.

[DK504]

4. LOL....

It will piss the Trumpenfurher off.

I had NO idea Germans had a carnival. Their floats are a bit racier than New Orleans.

[erronis]

7. Don't forget that carnival (and festival) existed long before the US existed

Old Europe (to use a GWB phrase). And the Old World. The Ancients, prehistoric, neanderthals.

Almost all of the cultural underpinnings of people living today have been around for 100's of years; many for millenia and eons.

I'm not trying to suggest that you weren't up-to-speed on history (near and far term), but there ain't much new under the sun.

And the Old Europeans (and older civilizations in general) know how to really celebrate! Not your grandmother's Macy's Parade!

[PatSeg]

15. Very creative and imaginative

Racier than I would have imagined.

I liked the caterpillar one - puts Trump in the company of rulers like Putin and Erdogan. The only people Trump is fooling are his hard core base. The rest of the world has his number.

[47of74]

21. Ya mean this one?

They even gave the Agent Orange caterpillar one a bit of hair.

[PatSeg]

22. Yeah

It wouldn't let me copy it for some reason!

[japple]

5. Love these pictures. THanks so much for posting the article. Having

lived for a number of years in Mainz, I have great memories of the Rosenmontag parade floats. Even in the 1960s, they were very biting!

[BumRushDaShow]

6. OMG!!

[progressoid]

11. Damn!

[m-lekktor]

17. LOL

[They_Live]

9. Excellent!

[dae]

10. Fantastical.

[pansypoo53219]

12. i have seen a travel show. rosendo's (?) fas nicht? celebrations around small places in germany.

medieval celebrations on dealing with OLD Turnip-like leaders. them krauts get nuts. maybe on youtube. pretzels + getting whacked by inflated pig bladders.

[Solly Mack]

13. K&R

[DFW]

14. I doubt Trump could find Duesseldorf or Koeln on the map

So I guess there's no danger of us getting nuked tomorrow. But here in Düsseldorf, if you have offended anyone politically, you're a prime target for a satirical float on Rosenmontag (today), and locals pull NO punches, as you saw.

[47of74]

16. That's the part of Germany some of my family came from...

....so you know where my attitude about Agent Fornicate Face and his groupies is coming from.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. As a note, the largest European-descended ethnic group in the U.S. is

you guessed it... German!

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21642222-americas-largest-ethnic-group-has-assimilated-so-well-people-barely-notice-it



http://www.businessinsider.com/largest-ethnic-groups-in-america-2013-8

[47of74]

19. Yeah where I live in Iowa us Germans and Irish are the main ethnic groups.

Even now most of the people around here descended either from German or Irish, or some mix thereof.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. I live not far from the (famous) "Germantown"

(as in "Battle of Germantown" during the Revolutionary War) in Philly, founded by German Quakers. Germantown is about 80+% African-American now but about half of NW Philly (where the Germantown neighborhood is located) are European-descended Germans/Irish/Scotch/English/Welsh.

It's ironic that much of what people hear about Philly nowadays relates to one of the last European groups to come here - the Italians (and the whole "cheesesteak" thing). But this city has a much older German tradition of pretzels, sauerkraut, scrapple, & all types of of wursts.

As a side note, I heard a local news story on the radio this morning talking about some of the bakeries in the city preparing for "Fasnacht Day" (Pennsylvania Dutch - i.e., "German", tradition) - a/k/a Shrove Tuesday/Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras - making "fasnachts" (a donut). I expect the beignet of Louisiana is similar.

[miyazaki]

23. Sneak one of these in during the next Rose Parade.

[47of74]

24. LOL

Along with the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.

I can hear the angry tweet storms from here.

[Beacool]

25. They were all great.