TIME Photo Secretly Subverts Trump Cover With Nazi Reference

[BumRushDaShow]

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.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-newest-time-covers-nazi-inspiration-revealed/

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Inspired by?

Sounds like somebody did an AI search for images with similar poses, and used the most clickbaity one.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Arnold Newman made the photo of Krupp in 1963. He practically invented on-scene portraiture

Called "environmental portraiture", not to be confused with Nature, but rather it is in a place the person is often found in.

[C_U_L8R]

2. What's with Trump's hands in that picture?

It looks like he’s forcing some kind of handsignal (as he often does)… white power? masonic? illuminati? kkk? nazi? dumbass?

Try and make that same handsign yourself…it has to be super intentional.

[ChazInAz]

3. That's a familiar image.

It's the back of the dust jacket from "The Arms of Krupp". Still in my library.

[txwhitedove]

4. Not at my big library system, but found on Amazon. Facinating.

[BattleRow]

5. Is it just me,but does the letter M over his head vaguely resemble horns?

[calimary]

7. Well, you know what they say in the real estate biz.

“Location, location, location.”

[BattleRow]

8. Perhaps the White House location should get rebranded a la Gulf of America.

Maybe the Devil's Triangle?

[calimary]

9. Or maybe just call it the Hell House.

But the Devil’s Triangle is not bad. Sure fits, anyway.

[BattleRow]

11. TY

[Shipwack]

10. Now that you have mentioned it...

I can’t unsee it! Thanks!