Time Magazines Provocative Cover puts Elon Musk behind Trump’s desk

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In a provocative step that could be aimed at Stoking President Donald Trump’s Ire, Time Magazine contains the latest print cover of Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

The great weekly publication known for its historically significant covers comes when Trump has given Musk and his department of government efficiency extraordinary power to gut the federal workforce – power that has been stymmed, at least to some extent, over the past few days of some litigation.

The simple coverageshowing that musk, coffee in hand, squeezed between the president’s desk and the US and presidential flags, is clearly decorated with a red background. The accompanying piece from Simon Schuster and Brian Bennett dives deeper into Musk’s reckless campaign that has left “millions of government workers (to) in the grace of Musk.”

“So far, Musk seems responsible for none, but President Trump, who handed over his campaign -welmy a sweeping mandate to bring the government in line with its agenda.” Wrote Schuster and Bennett. “Doge instructed all time questions about his work to the White House, which refused to comment.”

Time’s latest printing edition marks the second time in recent months that Musk has appeared on the magazine’s printed coverage after doing so in November as “Citizen Musk” With a complementary feature that styled the billionaire as a “Kingmaker” over his role in the presidential election. The couple with covers suggests that it is Musk, not Trump, the real power behind the wordy throne – an idea that can draw Trump’s honor that is famously fascinated by the magazine and does not share power.

It may be the poenget, although the time did not respond to a request for comment on whether the cover was intentionally designed to provoke Trump.

Trump was asked about the front of the White House on Friday.

“Is Time Magazine still in business?” Trump asked jokingly. “I didn’t even know.”

The president has spoken reverently about the iconic Red-Indramed Magazine, which for Trump has a place of power and privilege. Trump has twice been selected as Time’s “Person of the Year” already appeared on his cover since he returned to the presidency. His desire to be on the front have previously been so eager That he manufactured a question about the magazine that lavish praise for his reality -tv show, “The Apprentice.”

If the coverage of the time is intended to be provocative, it would not be the first time that the magazine’s famous front page could run a wedge between Trump and a top acolyte.

The latest feature of the time at musk 2017 on the front of Steve Bannonwhich, like Musk, had the president’s ear during Trump’s first battle in the White House. Like musk under the new administration, Trump’s first administration’s early days were overshadowed by news articles who claimed that Bannon saw the most important strategy in the White House, was the puppet master behind the resolute desk – with time gone as far as Brand Bannon “it Big manipulator. Ugly reaper Pulls Trump’s strings.

For Trump – which historically has not taken kind of to be overcast – was Bannon’s slow eclipse, creating the perception of Trump’s weakness, a firm violation. Litany of Perceived SMS eventually led to Bannon’s public exhaust and his loss of the president’s advantage.

Especially musk that relentlessly use his X pulpit To attack those he disagrees with has so far thrown himself away from discussing his latest laurels.

Since Trump’s return to the Oval Office, Musk’s mandate has been to repeat the Brute Force used to Bulldoze Twitter’s workforce after his acquisition of 2022 has been given free rein over the cuts.

“He (Trump) said that if Elon Musk encounters a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that DOGE oversee, Elon will apologize from these contracts,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, said during a briefing Wednesday.