Time Magazine did President Trump dirty.
The long-running magazine put out their latest release, which had a cover that celebrated President Trump’s significant role in bringing a ceasefire to the war in Gaza. For two years, since Hamas attacked Israel in 2023, Israel and Hamas have been at active war in the Middle East (with a history or war and conflict that obviously goes back much further), and Trump was finally able to broker a deal to end the fighting that has resulted in an estimated 67,000-plus casualties.
President Trump traveled to Egypt to sign the peace plan and officially end the war, and global leaders met there to witness the moment. The POTUS called the document a “dawn of a new era” for the Middle East, and the peace plan also released Israeli hostages that were being held in Gaza.
The piece included in Time Magazine is actually a glowing, complimentary story about the President bringing the way in the Middle East to and end. But there was just something about the cover that didn’t quite sit right with people… including The Donald himself. Donald Trump evidently couldn’t get over the photo that Time went with for the cover, and sent this post out early this morning (like really early, around 1:30 a.m.) on Truth Social:
“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?”
In Trump’s defense… it is a really bad picture.
No one in their right mind would ever choose to have a picture taken of them from a below angle (unless they are really confident in themselves). It can quickly reveal a bad hair line, or a double-chin, and it’s simply not a flattering method of photography.
The message that Time Magazine included along with it was very nice, but the photo that they used for the cover made it appear that Donald Trump was… well, bald:
“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. The deal may become a signature achievement of Trump’s second term, and it could mark a strategic turning point for the Middle East.”
No matter what side of the aisle you are on… you’ve got to admit that’s a bad angle.
A person with thinning hair’s worst nightmare is overhead lighting. The second nightmare scenario is a picture from this angle. Put those two together and you’ve got a real problem. Trump has a decent head of lettuce for being 79-years-old. Some might throw out the “comb over” allegations, and who’s to say whether those or warranted? All I know is that the picture Time Magazine used was quite possibly the worst they could have gone with, or as Trump himself put it, the “worst of all time.”
It’s Day 1 stuff in the photography world… which led a number of people to believe that it was intentional. You can’t ignore the President’s achievement in brokering the peace deal, one that a most on the Left were clamoring for… but that doesn’t mean Time is gonna make him look good, right? Seems like that could be the case. So was the move by Time Magazine intentional? Certainly seems like it could be.
If they were shooting to undercut Trump’s accomplishment, it worked. All anyone is talking about now – including Donald Trump himself – is the cover photo.
