World News Desk: In a provocative move that could be aimed at stoking President Donald Trump’s ire, Time Magazine’s latest print cover features Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
Time Magazine has released its latest print cover which featured the Tesla CEO behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, which currently belongs to US President Donald Trump.
The cover comes at a time when Musk has garnered a significant influence within the Trump administration after the President made him lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
The simple cover, which shows Musk, coffee in hand, sandwiched between the presidential desk and the American and presidential flags, is plainly adorned with a red backdrop.
The accompanying piece from Simon Schuster and Brian Bennett delves deeper into Musk’s ruthless campaign that has left “millions of government workers [to] find themselves at Musk’s mercy.”
Many started questioning Musk’s influence since the department now has the power to gut the federal workforce.
The simple cover with the magazine’s signature red backdrop shows Musk, a cup of coffee in hand, sandwiched between the presidential desk and the American and presidential flags. The piece is from Simon Schuster and Brian Bennett.
Interestingly, Trump’s dismissive take on the Time cover came weeks after he boasted about being named the magazine’s 2024 Person of the Year, an honour he’s long coveted and first received after winning the presidential election in 2017.
While Trump did not say much about the cover, he did praise Musk for “finding tremendous fraud and corruption and waste,” after the Tesla CEO essentially shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
