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Topics: Donald Trump, Politics, Social Media, US News, Celebrity
Ella Scott
Topics: Donald Trump, Politics, Social Media, US News, Celebrity
President Donald Trump has complained about the ‘super bad picture’ of him that TIME magazine used to immortalise his return from Israel and Egypt, branding it as the worst image of ‘all time’.
On Monday (October 13), the 79-year-old travelled to Sharm el-Sheikh to sign a declaration for bringing peace to Gaza with 20 other leaders from across the globe, including Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey.
The legislation signing came after he landed in Israel for the release of hostages from Gaza under the ceasefire deal agreed between Israel and Hamas.
As part of the so-called ‘peace plan’, Israel released 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and an additional 1,700 Gazans detained after October 7, 2023.
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"I'm good at solving wars. I'm good at making peace,” he said to the BBC about his peace-making efforts at the Egyptian summit.
TIME magazine has since released a cover depicting Trump’s ‘Triumph’, which accompanies an article detailing how the Republican administration ‘sealed’ the Gaza ceasefire deal.
The cover story also references envoy Steve Witkoff, former advisor and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and the ‘painstaking efforts’ they went through to ‘quiet one of the world's most destabilizing conflicts’.
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While the father-of-five has called the article ‘relatively good’, he has taken issue with the image the outlet chose to promote it.
The photograph is a low-angle shot of Trump taken outside, wearing his signature navy suit and red tie combo.
Despite TIME magazine hailing the peace deal as a potential ‘signature achievement’ of his second term, and a ‘strategic turning point for the Middle East’, the POTUS is less than impressed.
“Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time,” he wrote via his social media site, Truth Social. “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.
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“Really weird!”
Trump remarked that he did not like taking pictures from ‘underneath angles’ and that the image the magazine used was ‘super bad’ and ‘deserved to be called out’.
“What are they doing, and why?” he questioned.
Trump first appeared on the cover of TIME in 1989 and is a two-time Person of the Year winner.
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“To be on the cover of Time as Person of the Year is a tremendous honor,” he told NBC in 2016. "It means a lot, especially me growing up reading Time magazine. And, you know, it's a very important magazine.”
He made the cover again in 2024, beating out former Vice President Kamala Harris, Catherine, Princess of Wales, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and podcast host Joe Rogan, among others.
The magazine claimed he was bestowed the crown for ‘marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a-generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America's role in the world’.
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Despite being lauded by the outlet on multiple occasions, Trump appears to have a fickle relationship with TIME.
In 2015, he complained about not being chosen for the magazine cover during his first run for office, as the award went to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, writing at the time: “I told you @TIME Magazine would never pick me as person of the year despite being the big favorite. They picked a person who is ruining Germany.”
He'd also previously slated the magazine’s annual 100 Most Influential People list, branding it a ‘joke’ in 2013.