“Where is my hair?” Trump furious with “worst photo ever” on Time cover

The magazine calls it “Trump’s Triumph”, but the American president is uncomfortable with an unflattering photograph. Why is there no hair and the supposed crown is “extremely small”?

The President of the USA, Donald Trumpprotested against Time magazine, criticizing the cover photograph that accompanies an article about the peace agreement in the Middle East, in which his hair seems to have “disappeared” — which he classified as “the worst ever”.

“Time Magazine wrote a relatively good article about me, but the photo could be the worst ever”, Trump on the Truth Social network, in the early hours of this Tuesday.

“They ‘made’ my hair disappear and they put something floating above my head that It looked like a crown—but an extremely small one.. Very strange!” Trump added that this was “a terrible photograph that deserves to be reported”.

The cover of this Monday’s edition of Time magazine bears the title “Your triumph” and shows a photograph taken from below, where the president appears looking up, apparently illuminated by intense sunlight.

The edition marks the recognition, on the part of the magazine, of what it describes as “a landmark achievement of Trump’s second term” and “a strategic turning point” for the Middle East: the first phase of a peace agreement between Israel and Hamas, which led to the release of all Israeli hostages held in Gaza and the release of around two thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

Trump’s statements came just hours after concluding visits to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, where he oversaw the signing of — a plan he personally promoted and formally put into effect end to two years of conflictafter the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, which triggered war in the region, recalls .

The North American president, whose diplomatic strategy in the Middle East has generated both criticism and praisemaintains a long and complex relationship with Time.

The publication has placed him on the cover several times, sometimes in an unfavorable way; but it has also distinguished it twice as “Person of the Year”the first time , and more recently, .