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TIME Magazine issued their new cover, according to Fox News.
Many people are mocking the cover because it depicts Biden ins a certain light.
“This cover attempts to make Joe Biden look cool, but even in their flattering depiction of his face — a drawing because he would look incredibly elderly and weak in a current high-def pic — he has his typical gaping mouth that makes him look clueless and afraid of Putin who is staring him down with a confident smirk,” Tim Young said.
“I can’t help but remember the cover of TIME where their editors pushed a lie by editing a Honduran child they claimed to have been separated from her parents by Trump on the cover with Trump – it turned out the child hadn’t been separated at all, but that image had been used to ruin Trump, which was their entire biased game for four years,” Young stated.
“Giving him a pipeline of leverage into Europe is NOT taking him on. It’s giving in,” Richard Grenell said.
Kyle Smith said, “DNC press releases aren’t this sycophantic.”
“Wonder why there was no such ‘Trump takes out Soleimani’ cover,” one reader pondered.
— Nielus Michels (@derAlteMeister) June 11, 2021
From Fox News:
TIME was widely mocked after the magazine unveiled its upcoming cover image on Friday ahead of the upcoming summit between a sunglasses-wearing President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The illustration features Biden in his signature aviator shades with the headline, “Taking on Putin.”
TIME spent years publishing unflattering illustrations of former President Donald Trump, complete with a pair of covers showing his “meltdown” stages and another set of covers showing Trump’s Oval Office filling up with water amid a “stormy” situation. But the unflattering Trump illustrations are not the only time the magazine used its cover to cast him in a negative light.
In 2018, it was revealed that a little girl shown in a viral photo crying as a U.S. Border Patrol agent detained her mother – and used by TIME magazine to symbolize the Trump administration’s family separation policy –was never separated from her mom, according to her own father.
TIME, which stood by the controversial cover despite the new information, called it “an image America could not ignore” and interviewed the photographer, as did other outlets. TIME even followed up with another article entirely about the cover and “the story behind” it.
The magazine even morphed Trump and Putin together ahead of their summit back in 2018. Now that Biden is in office, readers have taken notice of the hypocrisy.
Many others have taken to Twitter with feedback on the cover, including Real Clear Politics’ Tom Bevan referring to the press inquiring about Biden’s ice cream flavor of choice last month.
