The fact that Donald Trump is vain and impulsive should come as no surprise. And so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Donald Trump gave vent to his frustration on the way back from Egypt. Between a lot of self-praise on “Truth Social”, Trump used the time to draw attention to another topic that really bothered him: the new cover of “Time” magazine, an institution in the United States that was dedicated to the US President’s peace efforts. The story was “relatively good,” Trump wrote. “But the photo is perhaps the worst ever.”
Trump can be seen from an unusual perspective: diagonally from below. In fact, the angle is not entirely advantageous, straight hair, neck and chin look strange, the focus of the picture is also on this area. “They made my hair ‘disappear’ and put something on my head that looks like a crown, but an extremely small one. That’s really strange,” Trump said in outrage about the halo effect.
He’s never liked having photos taken from an angle from below, but this is a “super bad” picture. “What are you doing there and why,” Trump asked. The photo was a hit for Trump’s big opponent, California Governor Gavin Newsom. He posted a photo of the cover on X, pixelated below the chin.
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… pic.twitter.com/0bZDABIDGj
— TIME (@TIME) October 13, 2025
Donald Trump places a lot of value on presentation
Trump has a long relationship with the news magazine. In 2017 it became known that he had hung up fake magazines with his likeness in his golf clubs. The magazine eventually asked the US President to remove the covers. In the past, however, Trump has also regularly made it to the title – four times last year alone. Following his election victories, he was named the magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2016 and 2024.
The US President attaches great importance to his portrayal and has repeatedly complained about images of himself in the past. In 2023 he told his house channel “Fox” to only ever use the worst pictures of him. In March of this year, two months after his inauguration, Trump complained about a painted picture of himself at the Capitol in Colorado. The painting was “intentionally distorted to a degree” that he had “perhaps never seen before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time. After a few days the picture was taken down.
