Matthew Wilson
President Donald Trump may have appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, but it’s safe to say that he’s not happy about it. The president is angry with the photo the magazine chose.
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What Happened: Trump claims that the Time Magazine photo isn’t exactly flattering. Honestly, I’d have to agree with him. It’s a pretty bad photo, especially since the magazine was celebrating the president’s accomplishments.
Trump graced the cover for brokering a ceasefire deal in the Israel-Hamas war. But Time chose a very low-angle photo that distorted the president’s face and made it look like he didn’t have hair. Taking to Truth Social, the president complained about the photo.
- “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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Magazine Praises: However, despite the photo, Time had good things to say about the president. They praised the president’s ceasefire deal as a “signature achievement.”
- They wrote, “The living Israeli hostages held in Gaza have been freed under the first phase of Donald Trump’s peace plan, alongside a Palestinian prisoner release,’ Time wrote alongside the photo. The deal may become a signature achievement of Trump’s second term, and it could mark a strategic turning point for the Middle East.”
The Time Magazine cover photo came after Trump didn’t win the Nobel Prize. (The committee had made up its mind before the ceasefire deal came through.) However, Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado dedicated the award to the president.
- She wrote, “This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom. We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy. I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!”
