Trump Mocks Time Magazine After Cover Puts Musk Behind President’s Desk

Time magazine’s latest cover featured billionaire Elon Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, a move likely aimed at stoking US President Donald Trump’s ire. The otherwise simple red cover showed Musk, coffee in hand, sitting behind the presidential desk, sandwiched between American and presidential flags.

The provocative cover was accompanied by a lengthy article on Musk’s “war on Washington” by upending the federal government that has left “millions of government workers [to] find themselves” at DOGE chief’s mercy.”

The publication seems to have hit its mark, with President Trump shrugging it off claiming he hadn’t seen the latest issue. He mockingly asked if the Time was “still in business”, just weeks after boasting about being named the magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ for 2024– an honour he first received after winning the presidential election in 2016.

Addressing the media at the White House during a meeting with the Japanese prime minister, Trump was asked if he had seen the cover. Replying, he said he had not yet seen the cover and said, “No… Is Time Magazine still in business? I didn’t even know that.”