--- title: Donald Trump: These Are His TIME Cover Stories description: President Donald Trump has appeared on more than a dozen TIME magazine covers in the past few years. Take a look at all his cover stories canonical: https://time.com/5098069/donald-trump-time-magazine-covers/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-11T15:03:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T22:59:54.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Here Are the Donald Trump TIME Covers Since the Start of His Presidential Campaign og:description: From the Republican primaries to his Oval Office anniversary og:url: https://time.com/5098069/donald-trump-time-magazine-covers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebeebc3cf162bebd/6988f7e0ab6d777f566b14e6/donald-trump-time-magazine-covers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Richmond, VA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here Are the Donald Trump TIME Covers Since the Start of His Presidential Campaign twitter:description: From the Republican primaries to his Oval Office anniversary twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebeebc3cf162bebd/6988f7e0ab6d777f566b14e6/donald-trump-time-magazine-covers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here Are All the TIME Covers Featuring Donald Trump Since the Start of His Presidential Campaign > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:59 PM UTCPublished: Jan 11, 2018 3:03 PM UTC  Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, signs a copy of Time magazine with his photograph on the cover during a campaign rally at the Richmond International Raceway on Oct. 14, 2015 in Richmond, Va. Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, signs a copy of Time magazine with his photograph on the cover during a campaign rally at the Richmond International Raceway on Oct. 14, 2015 in Richmond, Va.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:59 PM UTCPublished: Jan 11, 2018 3:03 PM UTC Since launching his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has [appeared on more than a dozen TIME magazine covers](http://time.com/4528468/donald-trump-time-cover-2/). He has been depicted in [multiple stages of meltdown](http://time.com/4528598/donald-trump-meltdown-cover/), standing beside his election opponent and an unstable Washington monument, speaking behind a podium on the campaign trail and at his inauguration. (He was also shown on the cover once before his campaign began, in the 1980s.) Trump has boasted — incorrectly — about setting a record with his frequent cover appearances, but he has yet to do that. No one has been featured as many times as Richard Nixon, who [appeared on the cover 55 times.](http://time.com/3080127/nixons-time-magazine-covers/) ### 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. TIME  The Mar. 14, 2016 issue of TIME. TIME  The Jan. 18, 2016 issue of TIME. TIME  The Aug. 31, 2015 issue of TIME. TIME  The Jan. 16, 1989 issue of TIME. TIME Take a look back at Trump’s TIME covers from the past few years: [The Donald Has Landed. Deal With It](http://time.com/trump/) | Aug. 20, 2015 [Donald Trump’s Art of the Steal](http://time.com/magazine/us/4170762/january-18th-2016-vol-187-no-1-u-s/) | Jan. 7, 2016 [Donald Trump’s Wild Ride](http://time.com/magazine/us/4246074/march-14th-2016-vol-187-no-9-u-s/) | March 3, 2016 [What a President Needs to Know](http://time.com/magazine/us/4405791/july-25th-2016-vol-188-no-4-u-s/) | July 14, 2016 [Inside Donald Trump’s Meltdown](http://time.com/magazine/us/4447970/august-22nd-2016-vol-188-no-7-u-s/) | Aug. 11, 2016 [Inside Donald Trump’s Total Meltdown](http://time.com/magazine/us/4529382/october-24th-2016-vol-188-no-16-17-u-s/) | Oct. 13, 2016 [How the 2016 Election Became a Battle of the Sexes](http://time.com/magazine/us/4556031/november-14th-2016-vol-188-no-20-u-s/) | Nov. 3, 2016 [The Making of President Donald Trump](http://time.com/magazine/us/4565955/november-21st-2016-vol-188-no-21-u-s/) | Nov. 9, 2016 [TIME 2016 Person of the Year](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump/) | Dec. 8, 2016 [Donald Trump’s Unprecedented, Divisive Speech](http://time.com/magazine/us/4642992/january-30th-2017-vol-189-no-3-u-s/) | Jan. 20, 2017 [Inside Donald Trump’s White House Chaos](http://time.com/magazine/us/4672961/february-27th-2017-vol-189-no-7-u-s/) | Feb. 16, 2017 [Inside Donald Trump’s War Against the State](http://time.com/magazine/us/4696416/march-20th-2017-vol-189-no-10-u-s/) | March 9, 2017 [The Comey Misfire](http://time.com/magazine/us/4775428/may-22nd-2017-vol-189-no-19-u-s/) | May 11, 2017 [Inside Donald Trump’s Latest Battle Against the NFL](http://time.com/magazine/us/4960617/october-9th-2017-vol-190-no-14-u-s/) | Sept. 28, 2017 [How Trump’s Cabinet is Dismantling Government as We Know It](http://time.com/magazine/us/4998244/november-6th-2017-vol-190-no-19-u-s/) | Oct. 26, 2017 [The Unpresident: Why Donald Trump Will Never Change](http://time.com/5098415/the-unpresident-why-donald-trump-will-never-change/) | Jan. 11, 2018 [Donald Trump Relied on Michael Cohen to Weather the Storm. Now The President Is On His Own](http://time.com/5237454/donald-trump-relied-on-michael-cohen-to-weather-the-storm/) | Apr. 12, 2018 [Donald Trump’s Campaign to Discredit the Russia Investigation May Be Working. It’s Also Damaging American Democracy](http://time.com/5304206/donald-trump-discredit-mueller-investigation/) | June 7, 2018 [This Is What Trump’s Impulsive Diplomacy Looks Like](http://time.com/5311983/donald-trump-north-korea-diplomacy/) | June 14, 2018 [A Reckoning After Trump’s Border Separation Policy: What Kind of Country Are We?](http://time.com/5318229/donald-trump-border-separation-policy/) | June 21, 2018 [Trump Wanted a Summit With Putin. He Got Way More Than He Bargained For](http://time.com/5342747/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-summit-2/) | July 19, 2018 [Trump Is in Trouble. Here’s How Much Worse It Can Get](http://time.com/5375650/trump-cohen-trouble/) | Aug. 23, 2018 [How the Anti-Trump Resistance Is Organizing Its Outrage](http://time.com/5428173/boots-on-the-ground/) | Oct. 18, 2018 [Trump and Pelosi Are Locked in Their First Battle. Neither Can Afford to Lose](http://time.com/5498900/donald-trump-nancy-pelosi-battle/) | Jan. 10, 2019 [The Biggest Field Yet. No Frontrunner. A Divided Base. Welcome to the 2020 Democratic Primary](http://time.com/longform/2020-democratic-primary/) | Feb. 21, 2019 [Nancy Pelosi Doesn’t Want to Talk About Impeachment. The Democrats May Not Be Able to Resist It](https://time.com/magazine/us/5551291/march-25th-2019-vol-193-no-11-u-s/) | March 14, 2019 [‘This Is Very Good.’ How Trump Beat the Mueller Investigation](http://time.com/5560218/how-trump-beat-mueller-investigation/) | March 28, 2019 [‘My Whole Life Is a Bet.’ Inside President Trump’s Gamble on an Untested Re-Election Strategy](https://time.com/magazine/us/5610714/july-1st-2019-vol-194-no-1-u-s/) | June 20, 2019 [How Donald Trump Triggered an Unprecedented Impeachment Fight](https://time.com/5686822/trump-biden-ukraine-call-favor/) | Sept. 26, 2019 _Dates provided in the list above are publication dates, not issue dates._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5098069/donald-trump-time-magazine-covers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5098069/donald-trump-time-magazine-covers/"},"headline":"Here Are All the TIME Covers Featuring Donald Trump Since the Start of His Presidential Campaign","datePublished":"2018-01-11T15:03:24.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T22:59:54.000Z","description":"From the Republican primaries to his Oval Office anniversary","url":"https://time.com/5098069/donald-trump-time-magazine-covers/","keywords":["Donald Trump","White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebeebc3cf162bebd/6988f7e0ab6d777f566b14e6/donald-trump-time-magazine-covers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebeebc3cf162bebd/6988f7e0ab6d777f566b14e6/donald-trump-time-magazine-covers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Richmond, VA","caption":"Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Richmond, VA","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5098069/donald-trump-time-magazine-covers/","name":"Here Are All the TIME Covers Featuring Donald Trump Since the Start of His Presidential Campaign"}}]}] ```