Time magazine put outs its inauguration cover over the weekend, just ahead of President Donald Trump’s inauguration event, which featured the new occupant of the Oval Office shoving all of the crap on the Resolute desk along with a caption that said, “He’s Back.” And they went even further and mocked the infamous Joe Biden sunglasses on the cover too. To go with the cover, a piece was published in the magazine that featured the cover headline, “Donald Trump’s disruption is back.”
A little while back, Trump was also named Time’s Person of the Year for 2024. Keep in mind the publication has usually given the award to individuals who win presidential elections, so this is a pretty standard move. Both Biden and Harris were given the award after the 2020 election. And Trump himself received the honor when he won his first term in 2016.
“A pair of aviator sunglasses, which President Biden is known to wear frequently, are also seen in the illustration being swiped off the desk. Conservatives reacted to the cover on social media with glee as Trump prepares to cap his remarkable political comeback when he takes the oath of office,” Fox News reported.
Commentators pointed to the illustration’s caption, “He’s back,” and the symbolic departure of Biden from office.
“Trump, of course, is himself an unpredictable force for change. Whatever one thinks of him, he has altered America in ways unimaginable a decade ago,” The Time piece went on to say about the president. “He is arguably the most influential change agent to occupy the White House since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
Others pointed to previous Time magazine covers of Trump, including the 2017 issue that similarly placed Trump behind the Resolute desk with the caption “nothing to see here.” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., posted three clapping emoji’s on X in reaction to the cover. The Time piece read that it was on Trump and America to uphold the oath of office.
“As he takes office for the second time, the pledge at the center of his Inauguration spectacle now seems less an expression of insecurity by the framers than one of wisdom. And those anxious about what is coming can be glad that on Aug. 27, 1787, the convention delegates decided to broaden their original version of the President’s oath from a simple promise to ‘faithfully execute the duties’ of the office to a further commitment to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.’ It is on Trump, and America, to ensure that oath is kept,” the piece stated in conclusion.
After being named the person of the year, Trump was given the honor of ringing the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange.
“Since he began running for President in 2015, perhaps no single individual has played a larger role in changing the course of politics and history than Trump,” Time said in its article at the time. “Trump is once again at the center of the world, and in as strong a position as he has ever been.”
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