--- title: Donald Trump Meltdown: Magazine Cover on Republican War description: The Oct. 24 issue of TIME may look a little familiar to some readers. In order to capture the latest twists in Donald Trump's campaign... canonical: https://time.com/4528598/donald-trump-meltdown-cover/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-13T10:30:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:25.729Z article:section: Press Room og:title: Check Out Time's New Donald Trump Cover og:description: Meltdown is back og:url: https://time.com/4528598/donald-trump-meltdown-cover/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt473e251d18917ee4/6988a9bc656a3f5389bcd6e3/trump-compare-final.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5000 og:image:height: 2813 og:image:alt: Total Meltdown Donald Trump Time Magazine Comparison covers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Check Out Time's New Donald Trump Cover twitter:description: Meltdown is back twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt473e251d18917ee4/6988a9bc656a3f5389bcd6e3/trump-compare-final.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump's Meltdown Returns to TIME's Cover > Sponsored content. 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In order to capture the latest twists in Donald Trump’s campaign and the rising anger within the Republican party leadership about their standard bearer’s behavior, we asked artist [Edel Rodriguez](http://edelr.com/index.php) to reprise his illustration of Donald Trump which appeared on the Aug. 22 issue of TIME—this time with just one small twist. [(Read TIME creative director D.W. Pine on the impact of Rodriguez’s original image.)](http://www.minonline.com/the-cover-story-time/) Rodriguez was formerly an international art director for the magazine and has since completed a variety of covers for TIME, including the cover that followed the [2015 attacks on Paris](http://time.com/paris-attack/). This week mark’s the sixth time—and the fifth since he launched his presidential campaign in June 2016—Trump has been on magazine’s cover. The businessman first appeared on the cover in 1989\. By comparison, Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton has appeared on TIME’s cover 31 times; she was first on the cover in September 1992 when her husband Bill was two months away from winning the White House. [Read this week’s cover story, “Trump Goes to War.”](http://time.com/gopmeltdown) ### See Every Donald Trump TIME Cover  Illustration by Edel Rodriguez for TIME  Photograph by Pari Dukovic for TIME  Illustration by Tim O'Brien for TIME  Illustration by Edel Rodriguez for TIME  Illustration by Tim O’Brien for TIME  Illustration by Jason Seiler for TIME  Photo-Illustration by Pablo Delcan for TIME  Illustration by Tim O'Brien for TIME  Photo illustration by Nancy Burson for TIME (Digital imaging by John Depew. Source photographs Trump: Getty Images; Putin: Kremlin handout)  TIME Photo-Illustration. Photographs by Getty Images  Photograph by Kevin Lim—The Straits Times/Getty Images  Illustration by Tim O’Brien for TIME  Illustration by Tim O’Brien for TIME  Illustration by Edel Rodriguez for TIME  Illustration by Edel Rodriguez for TIME  Photo-illustration by Brobel Design for TIME. Player: Jim Davis–The Boston Globe/Getty Images, Field: Sandro Di Carlo Darsa– PhotoAlto/Getty Images  Photograph by Benjamin Rasmussen for TIME  Illustration by Tim O’Brien for TIME  Illustration by Tim O’Brien for TIME  Photograph by Alex Wong—Getty Images  2016: Donald Trump TIME  President-elect Donald Trump addresses supporters at his victory night party at 2:52 a.m. on Nov. 9 in New York City. Photograph by Chelsea Matiash for TIME  TIME Photo-Illustration. Photographs: Getty Images (5)  The Oct. 24, 2016, issue of TIME Illustration by Edel Rodriguez for TIME  The Aug. 22, 2016 issue of TIME. Illustration by Edel Rodriguez for TIME  The Jul. 25, 2016 issue of TIME. 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