TIME Magazine has released another bizarre cover featuring President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s faces morphed into one.
TIME’s new cover: Trump wanted a summit with Putin. He got way more than he bargained for https://t.co/sUu9gGKmmP pic.twitter.com/qq6iOjlis1
— TIME (@TIME) July 19, 2018
The cover comes as the two leaders met in Helsinki, Finland, for what has been viewed as a controversial summit.
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a press conference after their bilateral meeting in which Trump appeared to deny any substantive Russian wrong-doing during the 2016 election. His failure to do so was met with nasty bipartisan backlash at home.
Trump attempted to walk back the comments made during the press conference by claiming he meant to say he had no reason to believe it “wouldn’t” be Russia, as opposed to him actually saying he had no reason to believe it “would” be.
This is not the first instance in which TIME has used their cover to take shots at the President. Just last month, TIME released the famously debunked cover depicting President Trump staring down an immigrant toddler in response to media backlash regarding the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border policy.
TIME’s new cover: A reckoning after Trump’s border separation policy: What kind of country are we? https://t.co/U4Uf8bffoR pic.twitter.com/sBCMdHuPGc
— TIME (@TIME) June 21, 2018
TIME also released a cover depicting Trump as a king.
TIME’s new cover: Donald Trump’s campaign to discredit the Russia investigation may be working. It’s also damaging American democracy https://t.co/z3bDDFdd6c pic.twitter.com/tL7Rafd0ya
— TIME (@TIME) June 7, 2018