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As asinine as it is that our president decided to pick a fight with Time magazine because he doesn’t like the photo of him that was chosen for its most recent cover, what really grinds my gears is that, well, I see his point. It is a pretty bad picture.

If you haven’t seen it yet, I’m talking about a cover that Trump, by all accounts, should have been thrilled with: It features the cover line “His Triumph” and essentially implies he solved Middle East peace, which could help with a certain prize he’s obsessed with . Trump has long been both enthralled with legacy media institutions like Time and harbored a chip on his shoulder about how they cover him, so fi

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