Overview
- Time released the Oval Office portrait online ahead of print, showing Trump leaning forward with clasped hands beneath the cover line "TRUMP'S WORLD."
- The Daily Beast reported the composition echoes Arnold Newman’s 1963 image of Nazi-convicted industrialist Alfried Krupp, a claim Time called completely untrue.
- Time said the shoot drew on past presidential portraits in the Oval Office and warned that fueling social-media speculation spreads misinformation.
- Photographer Stephen Voss has not commented publicly; he briefly liked an Instagram remark noting the Newman parallel, according to the reporting.
- Trump has not weighed in on the cover, while communications chief Steven Cheung praised it, following the president’s complaint about a prior October Time cover.