While Donald Trump basks in the glory of the Gaza ceasefire deal, his pride at his involvement in the peace plan was dulled by Time Magazine’s cover of him which he claimed featured ‘a super bad picture’
US president Donald Trump has featured in thousands of headlines worldwide following his plan to bring about peace in Gaza, but there was one magazine cover he strongly objected to.
After Trump travelled to Israel for the release of hostages and prisoners from Gaza and Israel under the recent ceasefire deal, he signed a declaration in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, along with 20 other world leaders.
Time magazine released an edition hailing the events as ‘His Triumph’ and detailing how his administration had gone to great lengths to try and secure peace. Despite the celebratory accompanying article, POTUS took great umbrage to the picture the publication chose to use on its cover.
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The image was taken looking up at the 79 year old’s face as he stares into the distance with a serious expression. He is wearing a smart navy suit, white shirt and red tie but the president was far from impressed.
“Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time,” he raged on Truth Social early on Tuesday. He added: “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.”
He described the cover as “really weird ” and continued: “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?”
The article itself said that the deal could go down in history as “a signature achievement of Trump’s second term” and that it was a “strategic turning point” for the Middle East. It also highlighted the “painstaking efforts” his administration went through to secure the ceasefire deal in “quieting one of the world’s most destabilizing conflicts.”
Trump is known to be a fan of the magazine and first appeared on its cover in 1989. He has won Person of the Year twice.
In 2016 he told NBC how important the accolade was to him: “To be on the cover of Time as Person of the Year is a tremendous honor,” he said. “It means a lot, especially me growing up reading Time magazine. And, you know, it’s a very important magazine.”
However, just a year before when he was running for office for the first time, he bemoaned not making the cover. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was given the accolade, which infuriated him.
“I told you @TIME Magazine would never pick me as person of the year despite being the big favorite,” he fumed at the time. “They picked a person who is ruining Germany.”