Sarah Jane Black / 18 April 2025 / Categories: People, Creative

Joep Bertrams Netherlands Take On President Trump

From a cartoon perspective

Joep Bertrams is a Dutch political cartoonist whose work appears in the Amsterdam-based daily newspaper Het Parool and the TV program NOVA. I follow him on Instagram @joep_bertrams and although I don’t speak Dutch and don’t dislike President Trump especially, the cartoons are absolute genius, hilarious, well thought out.

I think partly because Mr. Trump plays so well to the media, giving a clever cartoonist like Joep Bertrans so much material to work with.

In many ways President Trump and President Putin are the perfect villainous characters high stakes political leaders that give satirists and political commentators and comedians so much to go at.

I think in many cases the outrageous statements especially from the Trump Administration is intentional and designed to keep both the press and more importantly other world leaders, like Italy’s PM Georgia Meloni and popularist leader who visited the White House oval Office this week, guessing. Even though Mr Trump and Ms Meloni seemed to get along quite well together I was wondering if I might see something funny about the two pop up on Joel Bertram’s feed, as yet no.

The interesting thing for me as someone who doesn’t have an opinion on the leader of the free world especially, and I don’t believe Joep Bertram is as opposed to Trumps ideas as the democrats in the US.

Inspite of the judiciary in the US doing their very best to undermine decisions made in the Oval Office, I am waiting to see what happens and if President Trump manages to stop the killing first and foremost that has to the most important thing before land acquisition, mineral acquisition or power plays.

And in this way I believe Joep and my views are aligned.

You can license Joep Bertram’s art through his agent in Santa Barbara California, cable.com link below.