President Trump is cruising for a bruising.
Jim Carrey’s latest cartoon shows Trump driving a bus teeming with coronavirus while speeding through an intersection as a man blithely sporting a Fox News blindfold ambles into traffic.
As the man, who’s also wearing a T-shirt that reads: “I’d rather be Russian than Democrat,” crosses the road, sinister-looking Trump continues forward, setting up an inevitable collision.
“When America needed masks, Fox ‘News’ gave them blindfolds,” Carrey captioned the artwork, which was posted Thursday on his social media account.
Another blindfolded character, a young mother pushing a baby carriage with the license plate “DOOMED” also appears ready to cross while a face-masked man standing on the curb throws his hands up at the sight.
Many of Fox News’ most high-profile personalities continue to downplay the deadly wrath of the COVID-19 outbreak while pushing for the country to reopen businesses.
As of Friday, more than 88,000 Americans have died from the pandemic, according to health tracker Worldometer.
Fox News has been heavily criticized for its coverage of the pandemic. In April, the network was sued by a Washington group seeking an injunction to prevent it from “publishing further false and deceptive content.”
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A group of 74 journalism professors also signed a letter deeming Fox News’ coronavirus coverage a “danger to public health,” according to reports.
In early March, former Fox Business Network host Trish Regan referred to the pandemic as a left-wing scheme to impeach Trump. Less than three weeks later, she left the network.
And in a Feb. 28 opinion piece, Breitbart editor Joel Pollak wrote, “Coronavirus is an info-demic,’ a panic caused by the spread of potential and often misleading information about a health risk, sometimes deliberately.”
On Monday, Carrey posted an illustration of Trump with the personification of death.
“Grim Reaper officially jealous of Trump and GOP’s ability to double the death toll,” read the caption as Death holds up his bony middle finger.