TIME Photo Secretly Subverts Trump Cover With Nazi Reference [View all]
Source: Daily Beast
Updated Oct. 25 2025 3:33AM EDT
Published Oct. 24 2025 3:00PM EDT
President Donald Trump’s latest TIME magazine cover owes its visual language to one of the most chilling portraits of the 20th century, the Daily Beast has learned.
The TIME image—released online ahead of next week’s print issue—depicts the 79-year-old president behind the Resolute Desk. He is leaning forward into a power pose that obscures his often bruised right hand and loose neck skin. Above the image, which was shot by Washington-based photographer Stephen Voss, the headline declares, “TRUMP’S WORLD.”
The cover was unveiled just days after Trump himself lashed out at a TIME cover picture of him, which showed an unflattering perspective on his 79-year-old neck. He has yet to give his take on the new image, but his chief communications officer is clearly enamored. “TRUMP’S WORLD,” Steven Cheung wrote on X, sharing the image.
Other photographers on Instagram were quick to recognize the homage to an infamous photo Photo composition by The Daily Beast/Images from TIME Magazine (left) and Arnold Newman (right)
It comes as TIME’s billionaire owner, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, outed himself as a Trump super-fan, declaring that he “fully supports” the president’s plot to send National Guard troops to San Francisco. “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it,” he said. The Daily Beast has learned that the composition on the new TIME cover is inspired by Arnold Newman’s 1963 photograph of Alfried Krupp, the German industrialist and convicted Nazi war criminal.
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