While TIME’s covers striking out against Trump - and the journalism that has gone along with it - have felt good, others have noticed that, especially with Trump’s victory, there’s a strange narrative unfolding between the president and what might be considered the nation’s last printed news magazine (you may recall that Newsweek ceased printing operations in 2012). Tim O’Brien, the Brooklyn-based artist of the piece, said his prompt from TIME was “Trump in a storm.” More importantly, I think, is that Trump seems entirely unaffected by it. For those of us on the left, it feels like a dispiriting if accurate depiction of the first few weeks of the administration - the tempest, Trump’s ephemeral hair flapping in the breeze, and the words “Nothing to see here,” reminiscent of the “This is fine” dog.īut as we get our latest representation of Trump on the cover of TIME, I’m starting to wonder if the story the cover is telling is not simply that his first weeks in office have been turbulent, but that he is, in fact, untouchable. Now, he’s being featured again, this time with an animated cover showing Trump sitting at his desk, a storm swirling around him. (And, it should be noted, he was chosen as TIME’s “Person of the Year.”) Among these were the minimalist TIME magazine covers of Trump, the first from August and the second from October, showing Trump literally melting. Throughout the 2016 campaign, there were little touchstones that (ultimately incorrectly) made me believe that there was no way, there was no way that Donald Trump could win the election.
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