They Yassified Trump
Like it or not, Time made Donald Trump the “Person of the Year” — for the second time. I do not like it, but I can admit Trump had a pretty eventful 2024. He became the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a felony, then the first convicted felon to be elected president. Also, he got shot in the ear. To celebrate all his ups and downs, Time gave him an interview and a photo shoot in which he looks … different.
Let’s start with the cover. Trump is squatting in a position I have never seen a 78-year-old comfortably assume, though the high-contrast editing has obscured his pants legs enough that they could really be doing anything. His face is … yassified? Did he get buccal-fat removal or just contoured into oblivion?
The rest of the photos, which are in (also high contrast) black and white, only get more surreal. One shows Trump giving the American flag a big smooch, which has the effect of calling to mind the many allegations of sexual assault against him. In another one, his hands look artificially enlarged, as if a telephoto lens has been used to address one of his rumored insecurities. Gone is the neon hue of a man with too much fake tanner and bronzer in his palette; in its place, heavy airbrushing appears to have given this man entirely new cheekbones. I never thought I would say this, but: Make Trump orange again?
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