Okay, like many others I’ve been referring to Trump satirically as an orangutan for a long time. This is obviously based on his weird orange complexion, a skin tone so strange that Bill Maher on American TV suggested he might be part orangutan. Showing the good humour and self-deprecation he is known, Trump went berserk and threatened the American talk show host with a libel writ and appeared in public waving around his birth certificate to show that his father was definitely human.
Well, yesterday I decided to amuse myself by making this sketch of Trump as an orangutan. I hope you can make it out. I’ve drawn him with the cheek flaps of a dominant male. That’s certainly how Trump thinks of himself, but perhaps I should have left these off to really take him down a peg. People have been making jokes about certain individual’s supposed resemblance to the ape since the 18th century. There was a debate among the early anthropologists about the position of the ape amongst the other primates. Was it the lowest type of human, or the highest of the apes? There was also a novel published in the 18th or 19th century about a mysterious businessman, a Mr Hourang Haut-Ton, (say it with a French accent) who arrives from the East Indies. He succeeds in business, becomes an MP by buying himself a rotten borough and is finally rewarded with a seat in the House of Lords. Surely a forerunner of Trump, but in monarchical Britain rather than republican America.
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