artwork by Barry Blitt;

"very so often, you hear stories on the news about a toddler who somehow manages to start the family car and drive the vehicle across town, where the law finally apprehends him—and it’s almost always a him—before too much damage has taken place,” Barry Blitt, the artist behind this week’s cover, says. “As to why this would come to mind on the week of our new President’s Inauguration . . . I have no idea!”

New Trump cover The New Yorker

Art Editor: Françoise Mouly
Editor: David Remnick