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Carnival floats mock Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel in this year’s German parade, which was cut back this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The former US president is portrayed naked as a suckling pig over a fire, while Putin is kicked in the groin by his imprisoned critic Alexei Navalny.
The Carnival Monday parade in Düsseldorf usually attracts thousands of spectators who saw the eagerly awaited floats designed every year by Jacques Tilly, Germany’s leading carnival float designer.
The festival takes place on the Monday before Ash Wednesday, but the mass celebrations have been canceled this year due to the raging virus.
However, that hasn’t stopped Tilly from preparing the satirical floats that traditionally target political figures and current events.
The designs are a mystery until they are revealed and the cars were revealed to the media on Monday without the usual crowd.
The organizers sent eight floats around town – separately rather than in a parade and on routes that were kept secret in advance to prevent crowds from gathering.
A carnival float with the former US President Donald J. Trump will be shown to the German media on Monday for the traditional Carnival on Rose Monday, which was canceled this year due to Covid-19
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny kicks Vladimir Putin in a judo fight in another satirical car owned by Jacques Tilly
Armin Laschet, the newly elected chairman of the Christian Democratic Union party, was shown dressed as Angela Merkel in the reduced carnival
A cartoonish coronavirus confronts a fool depicting the Rose Monday Carnival when organizers were forced to abandon plans for their usual celebrations
One of the more provocative floats this year shows a Catholic bishop with a penis-shaped miter with the message “The core problem of the Catholic Church”.
This year, one of the cars features a naked Donald Trump as a suckling pig roasting on a fire with the words “Make America Great Again” in the flames.
Another shows the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny kicking Vladimir Putin in a judo fight.
The president is a black belt in martial arts and he has called it his “favorite sport”.
One of the more provocative floats this year features a Catholic bishop with a penis-shaped miter.
On his robe is a message that reads: “The core problem of the Catholic Church.”
One of the carts showed how the earth looked worriedly at the coronavirus while a giant climate wave lurked behind the planet
The festival takes place the Monday before Ash Wednesday, but the celebrations have been canceled this year due to the virus that is still raging
The Rose Monday Parade in Düsseldorf usually drew thousands of spectators who attended the eagerly awaited floats
The controversial Polish ban on abortion was depicted in the car. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chairman of the ruling Polish Law and Justice Party (PiS), held a cross over a screaming woman
A carnival float depicts a conspiracy theorist whose brain is flying out of his head
Another wagon shows a comic illustration of the coronavirus devastating the carnival.
Angela Merkel is also represented in the parade, with Armin Laschet, the newly elected CDU leader, disguised as Chancellor.
The 59-year-old is a passionate Merkel loyalist and is considered a continuity candidate ahead of the September elections, in which the Germans will vote for their first new chancellor in 15 years.
Tilly, 56, says his main influences on his designs are classic British comedies like Spitting Image, Monty Python and Little Britain.
He told the German news agency about this year’s event: “It is a small signal that we are still alive.”
Officers in Germany tried to close a series of clandestine carnivals this weekend as traditional celebrations were canceled
In Cologne, another carnival exhibition designed by Greenpeace activists featured a clown-like Laschet plundering German cities
Carnival jesters of the Ravensburg Black Veri Guild go through the Obertortor in Ravensburg before the police dissolve the gathering
Carnival celebrator Erich goes through the Severinstor-Tor in Cologne with his ship, which symbolically sails through a sea of corona viruses
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