Donald Trump’s biographer, Michael Wolff, and Joanna Coles, who hosts the podcast ‘Inside Trump’s head’, discussed the US president’s recent crash out over his TIME Magazine cover image. They said that the US president was extra upset because of his unflattering hair and neck being portrayed in a magazine he has an obsession with.
After TIME magazine unveiled its cover image of Trump for its latest issue, the president took to Truth Social to express his deep disappointment. He was happy with the article that discussed his role in the brokering a peace deal between Israel and Hamas, but called the cover “the Worst of All Time.”
The photograph showcases the president’s chin from a low angle that could have upset anyone. The Daily Beast podcasters said that Trump’s dissatisfaction with his latest cover photo, which emphasises his neck and thinning hair, isn’t unfounded.
In a surprisingly valid crashout, Trump, who was midair in the Air Force One, wrote in the post, “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?”
Wollf said that the President was right to be upset. “You never want someone to take a picture from below, which is a technique that the media or the print media uses when they want to diss somebody,” he said.
Coles had agreed that it was not a flattering shot. She also noted that editor-in-chief of the left-leaning media company MeidasTouch, Ron Filipkowski, called the skin around the president’s neck a “neck vagina.”
In a post on X, Filipkowski had responded to Trump’s post about the magazine, saying, “They showed his neck vagina. That’s what he’s really upset about.”
Wollf told The Daily Beast that the president was still “obsessed with TIME,” noting a time when he had cancelled a couple of campaign events just because the magazine had called him up. He said that the the campaign staff questioned the president’s decision to give a whole day to the magazine, asking, “Why are we doing this for time? Does anybody read TIME?”
Meanwhile, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, who spoke to The Daily Beast, called Michael Wolff “a lying sack of s–t “ and a “fraud” and said that he routinely fabricates stories.
Trump’s biographer reveals the real ‘vulgar’ reason US president was upset over his TIME Magazine cover
