When you consider that the whole point of Donald Trump’s involvement with the National Enquirer and his catch-and-kill schemes was to hide potentially damaging stories – while also collaborating with David Pecker and others to plant salacious storylines about political opponents on the cover ahead of the 2016 election – Trump’s current predicament is rather ironic.
The scandalous headlines he was so keen to avoid in 2015 and 2016 are now raining down around him following his fraud conviction (Trump continued to insist at a press conference on Friday that he was not having an affair) – in different languages, and with all kinds of creative flair.
You can see a few headlines from US news media in this handy Instagram post that MSNBC’s social team put together:
And here are just some of the international headlines.
The Daily Star, a British tabloid, made no bones about it.
The Telegraph, a British conservative newspaper, put Trump’s pouting mug on its cover.
British tabloid The Daily Mirror took a similar approach, but opted for a nice little collage instead of a single photo of Trump.
Even if you don’t speak Spanish, I think there are some useful cognates in this headline from the Argentine newspaper Clarín to help you understand the message – such as the phrase “sobornos a una actriz porno” – to help you understand the understand message. And Le Soir, a French-language newspaper in Belgium, had a simple headline: “Coupable,” which translates to “Guilty.”
These are just a few of many examples. They talk about the fact that Trump’s beliefs are resonating outside the United States, where recent polls show a significant number of voters saying Trump’s beliefs could make them less likely to vote for him in November. Trump’s guilty verdict — and the salacious allegations he tried to keep secret nine years ago — are now tabloid fodder, a scenario he clearly hoped to avoid.
This article was originally published on MSNBC.com
