Drawing Trump In Shorts

The evolution of drawings of a man

Liza Donnelly
5 min readNov 2, 2020

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My first drawing of Trump during the primaries

During the 2016 Primaries, editorial cartoonists furiously produced drawings, myself included. I was angry. I pushed myself.

After a few drawings, I began to draw Donald Trump in shorts. Simply because he acts like a schoolyard bully.

The first drawing of Trump with shorts began here

That may not sound like a lot to you, but I am a pretty quiet person, and was raised to be nice to everyone, if I could. I am conflict averse as well. Reconciling my embedded character traits with wanting to draw political cartoons has never been easy. But I did it. I put Trump in little boy pants. My audience loved the symbolism.

My drawing after learning of the Billy Bus Bus Tape. This was a difficult drawing to do.

Then he was elected President.

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