OUR Donald Trump he seemed gloomy, but the woman sitting on the jury seemed to enjoy the spectacle.

“He’s fun to draw,” she says. Jane Rosenberg, a cartoonist with court experience, lives in New York. “His face is very expressive. He also has hat-like hair.”

Rosenberg only had 20 minutes to sketch and present the project to her media room clients. Among them will be a magazine New Yorkerwhich featured a court sketch for the first time since its launch in 1925.

Trump pleaded not guilty last Tuesday to 34 counts of falsifying business documents to cover up payments to former porn star Stormy Daniels.

Rosenberg is accustomed to this kind of pressure: other court cases she has covered include Ghislaine Maxwell, R. Kelly and Harvey Weinstein. He has been doing this work for many decades.

She started her career sketching sex workers and now, 43 years later, is trying to capture the gestures and facial expressions of the former president.

“Hands flew”

With her tripod and a suitcase full of gear, Rosenberg started with an initial sketch of the guards. “I’ve never seen such heightened security in a courtroom,” he told the Washington Post.

She started drawing Trump, but her first attempt shocked her. When he pleaded not guilty, Rosenberg decided she needed to do another sketch. Now Trump was looking in the direction where she was sitting. He looked grumpy. “I thought, “Yeah, this is it!”

He moved quickly: “My hands flew faster than the rhythm of my mind.” And just like that, he got the job done.

From that point on, everything depended on the speed of social networks and the “thirst” of the public. The sketch went viral on the internet – a tweet on the official Reuters Pictures account was retweeted millions of times, with some platform users changing Trump’s face to look like the Grinch or the figure in Munch’s “Scream”.

The New Yorker wanted to copyright the image. By the end of the day, this work was on the magazine’s website and was intended for print.

Donald Trump during his arraignment. Courtroom Sketch by 🎨 Jane Rosenberg pic.twitter.com/DdfXkHhnUA

— Reuters Pictures (@reuterspictures) April 4, 2023

The sketch was widely discussed on social media, with many scrutinizing the facial features of the former US president. His arms were crossed in a defensive posture. The mouth is slightly twisted, the eyebrows are raised.

Rosenberg attempted to capture the look of the man, who she said “became less than happy as prosecutors read the indictment.”

Françoise Mouly, art director of the New Yorker, speaks about this. cover – attraction for the magazine: “The uniqueness of this event was that Trump, who always wants to be in the spotlight and loves good and bad publicityhe could not control the “direction” of his appearance.”

Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker: https://t.co/1LST7qrble pic.twitter.com/ZGJm1VTVHN

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 10, 2023

The sketch is undoubtedly a career triumph for Brooklyn native Rosenberg. She studied art in the 1970s and says she’s used to the ups and downs of the profession and the speed at which cartoonists work.

One of the highlights of her career was her participation in the 2017 Library of Congress exhibit.

She herself hopes to bring Trump back to court. However, he does not have a favorite courtroom theme. “My favorite challenges,” he says, “are the ones with a good place to sketch.”

According to The Washington Post