This cartoon was published by cartoonist Steve Sack for The Minnesota Star Tribune on 11 October 2016, during the 2016 US presidential election campaign.

On 7 October 2016, a recording of Donald Trump was made public, known as the Access Hollywood tape, in which the then-candidate for president made sexually degrading comments about women. In the days after the recording was made public, Trump justified that it should not be taken seriously, as it was just a conversation between men in the locker room.

Sack took the metaphor literally in this publication. He turned the continental United States into a gym locker room and placed a caricature of Trump in the centre. The entire locker room is littered with towels on the floor with the words that Trump's critics associated with his 2016 campaign: lies, racism, bigotry, hatred, scams, misogyny and conspiracies. Trump, moreover, holds in his hand one more towel with the word vulgarity, with which he lashes out at a cornered Uncle Sam.

To make the intention of the map clear, Sack also hangs a sign on the door of the changing room that reads Trump's America.

Sources

• Sack cartoon: Trump in the locker room