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Outrage as Jim Carrey uses New Zealand mosque massacre to share sick cartoons of Donald Trump with a swastika on his forehead
COMEDIAN Jim Carrey has sparked fury after sharing a sick cartoon of Donald Trump in which he blames him for the New Zealand mosque massacres.
The Ace Ventura actor's artwork depicts the US president as a flaming asteroid hurtling towards Earth – with a swastika emblazoned on his forehead.
Branding the US president a "vile miscreant", the Ace Ventura actor posted his picture on Twitter and wrote: "Innocent people are now being slaughtered, families ruined and children's lives destroyed. All in his name."
In the drawing, Trump's hair is a streaking fireball, his mouth is wide open and his eyes are all white.
Carrey also said in his post: "If the Craven Republican Senate allows this vile miscreant to continue encouraging divisiveness, the ‘Trump Presidency’ will become an EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT.”
Innocent people are now being slaughtered, families ruined and children's lives destroyed. All in his name
The previous day Carrey posted another artwork expressing his sorrow over Friday's attacks which left 50 people dead.
His self-portrait depicted him crying, with an aerial view of New Zealand drawn in his pupil.
He wrote next to his work: “My heart is with you New Zealand. My tears are for all of us."
But Carrey's Trump cartoon was slammed by some Twitter users.
Elizabeth Perry posted: "Good artist. Too bad he has so much hate inside."
'UNFAIRLY BLAMED'
Another critic wrote: "Sit there and blame while you paint. The blame games getting old, change the world and people's perception!"
And a user called Allmaff added: "Hi Jim, aren't you, too creating divisiveness with content like this? Just on the other side of your spectrum?"
Trump tweeted on Monday that he was being unfairly blamed for the New Zealand terror attacks.
The alleged gunman, Australian-born Brenton Tarrant, left a document in which he called himself a white nationalist and referred to Mr Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity”.
SWASTIKA
Trump had expressed sympathy for the victims of the two mosques in Christchurch, but played down the threat of white nationalism across the world, saying he didn’t consider it a rising threat despite data suggesting it’s growing.
Tarrant, 28, was charged with murder on Saturday.
He was remanded without a plea and is due back in court on April 5 where police said he was likely to face more charges.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Fox television on Sunday: "The president is not a white supremacist. I'm not sure how many times we have to say that.
‘To simply ask the question every time something like this happens overseas, or even domestically, to say, 'Oh, my goodness, it must somehow be the president's fault', speaks to a politicisation of everything that I think is undermining sort of the institutions that we have in the country today."