Booted!

This is what the people did back then:

Infamous William M. Tweed, the corrupt 19th-century NYC power broker whose ring of cronies controlled the government purse, manipulated the legislature, and embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars, was depicted in defeat as a bloated, gouty Roman consul clutching a broken sword, wearing a royal headband of threadbare dollar signs and a sovereign medallion of his miserable likeness on his fat belly.

Would that this were so:

WRITING THE FUTURE: Infamous Donald J. Trump, aka Twitter Fingers, the corrupt 21st-century American president whose ring of cronies controlled the federal purse, manipulated the Senate, and lined their pockets with hundreds of millions of dollars, was depicted in defeat as a bloated, gouty Roman consul clutching a broken sword, wearing a royal headband of threadbare dollar signs and a sovereign medallion of his miserable likeness on his fat belly.

And this too.

The Tweed caricature by Thomas Nast is from Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine,
edited by Constance C. McPhee and Nadine M. Orenstein, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The collages courtesy of Straight Up’s tireless staff.