Gavin Newsom Trolls Trump With Touch-Up of TIME Cover Photo

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The publication has featured many unflattering Trump photos in the past, including drawings of Trump literally melting and Trump menacingly looking down at a crying toddler.
56% : Newsom's edit job was just one of the swings his X account took at Trump and the administration on Tuesday.
52% : "The Government is shut down, people are getting laid off, health care is becoming more expensive and the 'ruling' family is out promoting their next grift," the account wrote.
50% : On Monday, TIME magazine published a flattering story praising how Trump, 79, achieved a peace plan in the Israel/Hamas conflict with the help of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff.
50% : A low-angle photograph of Trump graces the magazine's cover, with the president standing in front of the sun.
50% : In a late-night Truth Social rant, Trump called the picture the "Worst of All Time" and bemoaned how the cover image "disappeared" his hair.
50% : For example, Kari Lake, the acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, posted a more heroic-looking photoshop of Trump that made the president appear skinnier and less wrinkled.
50% : TIME even had to intervene to get Trump to take down a fake cover dated March 1, 2009 with the headline "TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS... EVEN TV!"
50% : That same year saw Trump throw a brief tantrum for not being named the magazine's Person of the Year (he won the award in 2024).
45% : He also observed "something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one." The picture so offended the president that his sycophants ran to X to doctor up more flattering cover images.

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