Time magazine has released a new cover of its upcoming Nov. 10 issue featuring President Donald Trump after the GOP leader heavily critiqued the original image used.
The legacy publication unveiled the second edition earlier this week, tied to its feature on Trump, who was interviewed about his role in brokering the ceasefire deal between Gaza and Israel. While the former image features the POTUS looking upward framed against the sky with the caption “His Triumph,” the latter depicts Trump with his hands clasped under his chin at the Hayes desk with the subtitle “Trump’s World.”
Unveiled Oct. 14, Trump took significant umbrage with the cover photo initially chosen, writing on Truth Social at 1:36 a.m. ET that night: “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?”
Trump has a long established relationship with the newsweekly — both as subject and reader. According to the outlet, as of December 2024, Trump’s total cover count exceeds 40, coming behind only Presidents Ronald Reagan and record-holder Richard Nixon. Naturally, this doesn’t include the fake covers that had reportedly been hanging in “at least five of his golf clubs,” which featured a cover line exclaiming that “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.
Prior to the release of the original cover, the owner of Time, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, made waves over the weekend for comments to The New York Times in which he said he thought Trump was doing a “great job” and “fully” supported the idea of sending federal troops into San Francisco.
According to a report by The Daily Beast, Washington, D.C.-based photographer Stephen Voss’s new photo of Trump drew inspiration from Arnold Newman’s 1963 photograph of German industrialist and convicted Nazi war criminal Alfried Krupp, which was published by Newsweek, though Time vehemently denied this. (The digital outlet also reported Voss liking comments on Instagram where followers asked about the connection, though he has since seemingly removed his likes.)
“There is no connection and claims suggesting otherwise are completely untrue,” a Time spokesperson said. “The references for this photoshoot were past presidential portraits in the Oval Office, including TIME’s own covers. Giving weight to speculation on social media is reckless and contributes to the spread of misinformation.”
