The image, which Trump claims made his hair “disappear” and showed a “tiny floating crown,” accompanies a story hailing his role in brokering a Gaza ceasefire

US President Donald Trump is once again at odds with Time magazine — this time over what he called a “terrible, terrible photo.”
The cover in question, titled “His Triumph,” celebrates Trump’s latest diplomatic breakthrough — a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas — but the former reality-TV-star-turned-president wasn’t feeling victorious about how he looked.
Taking to his social platform, Truth Social, Trump blasted Time for using what he described as an “unflattering and weird” photo.
“Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me,” Trump posted. “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!”
Trump accused the magazine of doing him “a disservice” and mocked the photo’s angle — shot from below — saying it made him look “odd and distorted.”
“I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles,” he added. “But this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out.”
The Time cover marks a major moment in Trump’s presidency — it coincides with his being credited for mediating a Gaza ceasefire and securing the release of hostages held by Hamas.
Under the deal, 20 Israeli hostages were freed in exchange for roughly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and the return of over 360 bodies.
The breakthrough, sealed in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh, has drawn global praise, with some world leaders urging that Trump be nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
This is hardly Trump’s first run-in with Time. Earlier this year, he ridiculed the magazine after it published a photo of Elon Musk sitting at the Oval Office’s Resolute Desk, joking, “Is Time magazine still in business? I didn’t even know that.”
Still, despite the glowing write-up in Time’s latest issue, it was the picture — and, of course, the hair — that stole Trump’s thunder.
Published: 15 Oct 2025, 10:36 am IST
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