President Donald Trump blasted Time magazine for using his “worst” photo “of all time” in its latest cover photo about the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal.
Trump said in a Truth Social post early Tuesday morning that Time “wrote a relatively good story” about him, but “the picture may be the Worst of All Time.” The magazine noted the peace deal could become a “signature achievement of Trump’s second term” and “could mark a strategic turning point for the Middle East.”
While the article was largely positive, Trump took issue with the cover photo.
“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. Really weird!” Trump wrote on Truth Social at 1 a.m. on Tuesday.
“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?” he added.
The cover photo is taken from a lower angle as it features Trump looking up.
Trump’s comments come one day after he traveled to the Middle East to tout a peace agreement between militant group Hamas and Israel. Hamas released 20 hostages on Monday, while Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
The peace agreement is still in its early stages and comes after more than two years of fighting in the Gaza Strip.
The whirlwind trip, which included the summit in Egypt and a speech at the Knesset in Jerusalem earlier in the day, comes at a fragile moment of hope for ending two years of war between Israel and Hamas.
“Everybody said it’s not possible to do. And it’s going to happen. And it is happening before your very eyes,” Trump said alongside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.
Nearly three dozen countries, including some from Europe and the Middle East, were represented at the summit. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited but declined, with his office saying it was too close to a Jewish holiday.
Trump, el-Sissi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani signed a document outlining a broad vision that Trump said would lay the groundwork for Gaza’s future.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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