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There used to be a time where journalism would hold powerful people accountable, unfortunately those days are long behind us as Time magazine has bent the knee to the Trump administration and released a new cover for its upcoming Nov. 10 issue featuring President Trump after the president was reportedly unhappy with the original image.
According to Deadline, Time unveiled the second version of the cover earlier this week centered around the reported peace deal between Gaza and Israel, that Israel violated almost as soon as the ink was dry. The original image was an upward photo that showed the president jowls looking X-rated, with the words “His Triumph.”
Trump hated this photo and took to social media to voice his displeasure.
“Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”
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The new photo shows Trump sitting at the Hayes desk with his hands clasped in front of his chin. The new caption reads, “Trump’s World.”
Time magazine and the president have a relationship. Since Dec. 2024, the president has appeared on the cover of the news outlet some 40 times. Trump is currently third in the race of Republican presidents who have owned the front cover trailing only Ronald Reagan and record holder and fellow disgraced president Richard Nixon.
Deadline points out that this cover count doesn’t include the fake covers hanging in at least five of his golf clubs that feature cover lines like “Trump is hitting it on all fronts … even TV!” “The existence of the bogus covers, reported by the Washington Post, prompted the magazine to ask Trump to remove them. Since then, several real covers currently hang in various locations inside his Mar-a-Lago residence. Time also named him the Person of the Year in 2016 and 2024,” Deadline reports.
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Donald Trump has been named TIME Magazine’s Person of The Year for the second time, and social media users displeased at the choice made their opinions known.
On Thursday (December 12), TIME Magazine announced that President-elect Donald Trump would be its Person of The Year for the second time. He had graced the cover of the publication after winning the presidential election back in 2016. To commemorate the occasion, Trump was at the New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan to ring the opening bell as his family stood nearby. Chants of “U-S-A!!” could be heard during the moment. “He has reshaped the American electorate, activating young male voters who propelled him to a decisive victory that saw him win the popular vote for the first time and turn every swing state red,” the outlet wrote in the issue.
“His 2024 win is history-making in multiple ways: he will be the oldest President in U.S. history, and he was convicted earlier this year by a New York jury of 34 counts of fraud, making him the first convicted felon to be elected President.”
Time’s editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs praised Trump in the magazine, writing: “On the cusp of his second presidency, all of us — from his most fanatical supporters to his most fervent critics — are living in the Age of Trump.” Trump himself has unsurprisingly had a turbulent relationship with TIME Magazine – while he praised TIME as a “very important” publication and said being named person of the year in 2016 was a “tremendous honor”. But he would sour on the outlet’s description of him being “president of the divided states of America.” He also blasted the magazine in 2011 for leaving him off a list of influential people, claiming it had “lost all credibility”. In 2013, upset over another snub, he stated that TIME would soon go out of business. He’s also criticized other Person of The Year choices, including pop superstar Taylor Swift who nabbed the honor last year.
The news of Trump’s becoming TIME’s Person of The Year was met with disbelief by many, including those on social media. Democratic presidential nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris was on the shortlist for the honor, as well as Catherine, Princess of Wales and tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is a close advisor to Trump and poised to be head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
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