You’d think Donald Trump would be happy. Not only did he help broker a ceasefire to bring about an end to two years of hell in Gaza. He also – this is what really matters – got a flattering write up in Time Magazine . “The deal,” gushed correspondent Eric Cortellessa, “could become a signature achievement of Trump’s second term”. The cover image was even more adulatory: “HIS TRIUMPH” reads the caption, beneath a shot of the US President gazing into the distance thinking his great thoughts.
This, surely, is the moment presidents dream of – their place in history not merely assured but commemorated. Trump must be delighted .
He isn’t. “Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time,” he wrote on, inevitably, Truth Social. “They ‘d