President Donald Trump is not a fan of his Time magazine cover story photo.

Time posted the cover for the upcoming Nov. 10 issue on X, which features a photo of Trump taken from low down with the sun creating a halo effect where his hair blurs into the light. It features three titles: "His triumph," "The leader Israel needed," and "How Gaza heals." The X post links to a story about how the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas could be a signature achievement in Trump's second term.

But Trump took to Truth Social in the early hours of the morning as he flew back to the U.S. from Egypt to criticize the picture.

"Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, 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," Trump wrote. "Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?"

See Trump on Time magazine cover

Time did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the November cover.

This is far from Trump's first time on the cover of the magazine. The February 2025 cover was an illustation of Trump swiping things off the desk in the Oval Office with the caption "He's back." In May 2025, the cover featured a close-up portrait of him looking into the camera with the title, "Dealing with it."

Trump was also named "2024 Person of the Year" by Time.

"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," editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs wrote at the time.

Trump previously upset about his portrait in Colorado

In March, a portrait of President Donald Trump hung by state Republicans in the Colorado Capitol six years prior was removed after the president raged against it on social media.

“Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time, but provided no explanation as to why he thought it was distorted.

The potrait's artist Sarah A. Boardman, told The Denver Post when the portrait was unveiled in 2019 that her primary goal was to make it appear apolitical, as it is meant to represent U.S. history and not tell the story of one specific president over another.

Trump has also had changes made to his presidential portrait. In June, just a few months into office, the White House released an updated version of his official portrait, the second of this presidency. Similar to the portrait released in January, Trump's updated portrait gives a serious stare under furrowed eyebrows. But the new image features more dramatic lighting on a black backdrop, instead of the flag and ornate wall in the background of the previous portrait. Also, Trump swapped his blue tie for a red tie.

Kinsey Crowley is the Trump Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at kcrowley@gannett.com. Follow her on X and TikTok @kinseycrowley or Bluesky at @kinseycrowley.bsky.social.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump bemoans his Time magazine cover. ‘The picture may be the Worst of All Time’

Reporting by Kinsey Crowley and Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY / USA TODAY

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