Trump blasts Time cover photo of him as ‘worst of all time’
The article reports that former President Donald Trump criticized a recent Time magazine cover photo featuring him,which accompanied an issue recognizing his role in brokering a historic ceasefire deal between israel and Hamas. The deal led too the release of 20 israeli hostages held by Hamas after the October 7, 2023 attack. Trump expressed his displeasure on Truth Social,calling the image the “worst of all time,” criticizing the photo angle and the way his hair appeared,and questioning the magazine’s intentions. The cover, which included the headline “His Triumph,” praised Trump’s diplomatic achievement as potentially a defining success of his second term and a strategic turning point in the Middle East. This was at least the second time in the year that Trump publicly disapproved of an image of himself, following his earlier objection to a portrait in the Colorado State Capitol.
Trump blasts Time cover photo of him as ‘worst of all time’
President Donald Trump was not happy with the cover photo that Time took of him for an issue recognizing his efforts in brokering a historic ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.
The agreement resulted in the return of the 20 living Israeli hostages on Monday, who were still in Hamas captivity after the organization attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Trump slammed the image in a post on his Truth Social account early Tuesday morning.
“Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time,” Trump posted. “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!”
The president explained he was not comfortable taking pictures from “underneath angles” and questioned the publication’s motives.
“I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out,” Trump said. “What are they doing, and why?”
The cover photo was posted to Time’s X account on Monday afternoon. The words “His Triumph” accompanied the aforementioned image of Trump in what was supposed to be a buoyant recognition of the president’s diplomatic achievements in Israel on Monday.
“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,” read the caption on the X post. “The deal may become a signature achievement of Trump’s second term, and it could mark a strategic turning point for the Middle East.”
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Trump’s criticism of the image marks at least the second time this year that the president has taken umbrage with a photo of himself.
In March, he was critical of his portrait hanging in the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver, Colorado. The president claimed the painting was “purposefully distorted” to slight him. The painting hung in the building for six years before Trump rebuked it. He called on Gov. Jared Polis to remove it at the time. It was eventually replaced with a new portrait in June.
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