New York Post Thursday Cover Features Trump as Humpty Dumpty

• The New York Post featured Donald Trump as a nursery rhyme character on its Thursday cover.
• The tabloid newspaper supported Trump in 2016 but not for 2020.
• Many Republicans saw Trump’s supposed grip on the GOP as being rebuked by the midterm results.

The New York Post’s Thursday issue will invoke a large question mark around Donald Trump’s future in the Republican party — and it comes in the form of an old nursery rhyme.

“Don (who couldn’t build a wall) had a great fall — can all the GOP’s men put the party back together again?” Thursday’s cover featured a reference to “Humpty Dumpty sat upon a wall” by Mother Goose. Maggie Haberman, an ex-New York Post reporter, shared the cover.

—Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 10, 2022

The cover — which features an egg-shaped Trump teetering on the edge of a wall with “TRUMPTY DUMPTY” plastered at the bottom — is a sharp turn from the paper’s glowing endorsement of the former president in 2020.

The time was The Post’s editorial staff wroteTrump would restore “explosive job creation and rising wages” before the pandemic. The Post didn’t endorse Trump in 2016.

The midterm results are due Wednesday This was the result many had hoped for: a “red wave” blowoutRepublicans are now questioning whether Trump will be an asset to the party or a liability.

Piers Morgan, the controversial British journalist who joined The Post as a columnist in 2021, authored the cover story. A Wednesday opinion pieceHe wrote that he could not ignore the fact that President Biden and the Democrats had a remarkable night. 

“And the reason for this had little to do with anything they did, other than correctly bet that the issue of abortion rights would be a vote-energizer for them — and everything to do with Trump’s toxic stranglehold on the GOP,” he wrote.