--- title: TIME Magazine: How Trump Won description: Donald Trump’s Art of the Steal How the real estate magnate took the Republican Party from its old bosses A Campaign Like No Other... canonical: https://time.com/4170817/in-the-latest-issue-55/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-07T11:57:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T19:58:37.396Z article:section: Politics og:title: TIME Magazine: How Trump Won og:description: Donald Trump’s Art of the Steal How the real estate magnate took the Republican Party from its old bosses A Campaign Like No Other... og:url: https://time.com/4170817/in-the-latest-issue-55/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a379b2ca6b4132d/698877e5196cf47d89039ba1/trump-cover-final.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: How Trump Won Time Magazine Cover 160118 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME Magazine: How Trump Won twitter:description: Donald Trump’s Art of the Steal How the real estate magnate took the Republican Party from its old bosses A Campaign Like No Other... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a379b2ca6b4132d/698877e5196cf47d89039ba1/trump-cover-final.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # In the Latest Issue (7 Jan 2016) by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jan 7, 2016 11:57 AM UTC  Photograph by Mark Peterson—Redux by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jan 7, 2016 11:57 AM UTC [Donald Trump’s Art of the Steal ](http://time.com/4170772/the-art-of-the-steal/?iid=toc%5F010716)How the real estate magnate took the Republican Party from its old bosses [A Campaign Like No Other](http://time.com/4170791/a-campaign-like-no-other/?iid=toc%5F010716) [Why Race and Tribe Trump Economics In the Current Presidential Campaign](http://time.com/4170780/why-race-and-tribe-trump-economics-in-the-current-presidential-campaign/?iid=toc%5F010716) [Hillary and Women: Can Gender Be a Force Multiplier?](http://time.com/4170768/hillary-and-women-can-gender-be-a-force-multiplier/?iid=toc%5F010716) Clinton’s plan for getting out the vote [The Hidden Danger of TV’s True-Crime Obsession](http://time.com/4170779/the-hidden-danger-of-tvs-true-crime-obsession/?iid=toc%5F010716) The enthusiasm for shows like Making a Murderer isn’t all good [Eva Longoria and America Ferrara Return to TV, but Without the Spark](http://time.com/4170769/eva-and-america-return-but-without-the-spark/?iid=toc%5F010716) The Latina leads appear in Telenovela andSuperstore [My Open-Plan Life](http://time.com/4170771/my-open-plan-life/?iid=toc%5F010716) And other tales of communal existence [The New Business of Breast-Feeding](http://time.com/4170782/the-new-business-of-breast-feeding/?iid=toc%5F010716) [Rock Musicals Heat Up Broadway’s Winter](http://time.com/4170763/from-hair-to-bowie-the-rock-invasion-heats-up/?iid=toc%5F010716) From School of Rock to a new Billie Joe Armstrong musical [Exclusive: See How Big the Gig Economy Really Is](http://time.com/4169532/sharing-economy-poll/?iid=toc%5F010716) A new poll reveals the true size of the peer-to-peer revolution [Quick Talk With Natalie Dormer](http://time.com/4170764/natalie-dormer/?iid=toc%5F010716) The Game of Thrones actress now appears inThe Forest [Review: Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful EightRevels in Snow, Not So Much in People](http://time.com/4148091/hateful-eight-movie-review-quentin-tarantino/?iid=toc%5F010716) All the promise of the first hour of the film is squandered in the last two [Review: There’s Lots of Suffering in The Revenant, But Bear With It](http://time.com/4157304/the-revenant-movie-review/?iid=toc%5F010716) Director Alejandro González Iñárritu may have fashioned The Revenant as the ultimate endurance test, but its star, Leonardo DiCaprio, simply endures [Review: In Anomalisa, Puppets Have Problems Too](http://time.com/4157259/anomalisa-movie-review/?iid=toc%5F010716) But once you start reckoning with Anomalisa’s obsession with self-absorption, the novelty of this one-man pity party begins to wear off. [Pop Chart](http://time.com/4170766/pop-chart/?iid=toc%5F010716) [Lightbox](http://time.com/4170767/lightbox/?iid=toc%5F010716) [How Pandas Are Becoming a Tool of Chinese Diplomacy](http://time.com/4170789/the-panda-doctrine/?iid=toc%5F010716) As their numbers rise [Milestones](http://time.com/4170770/milestones/?iid=toc%5F010716) [Political Pop Songs](http://time.com/4170773/political-pop-songs/?iid=toc%5F010716) [Why the Feds Held Back In Oregon](http://time.com/4170774/why-the-feds-held-back-in-oregon/?iid=toc%5F010716) [Next-Gen Gadgets](http://time.com/4170776/next-gen-gadgets/?iid=toc%5F010716) [Review: In Tessa Hadley’s New Novel, Past Is Prologue](http://time.com/4170777/in-a-new-novel-past-is-prologue/?iid=toc%5F010716) The Past unites four grown siblings for a vacation in the country [Home](http://time.com/4170778/home/?iid=toc%5F010716) [Beat Winter Blues](http://time.com/4170781/beat-winter-blues/?iid=toc%5F010716) [The Top 5 Geopolitical Risks for 2016](http://time.com/4170785/the-top-5-geopolitical-risks-for-2016/?iid=toc%5F010716) From a closed Europe to the China footprint [Presidential Power](http://time.com/4170786/presidential-power/?iid=toc%5F010716) [Cutting Through the 2016 Hype](http://time.com/4170787/cutting-through-the-2016-hype/?iid=toc%5F010716) Despite wall-to-wall presidential coverage, some of the best stories of the campaign have been lost in the shuffle. [Verbatim](http://time.com/4170790/verbatim/?iid=toc%5F010716) [Chicago’s Urban Farm](http://time.com/4170792/chicagos-urban-farm/?iid=toc%5F010716) [An Unstable Saudi Arabia Could Mean Big Trouble for the Middle East](http://time.com/4170793/an-unstable-saudi-arabia-could-mean-big-trouble-for-the-middle-east/?iid=toc%5F010716) Inside the latest upheaval [Natalie Cole](http://time.com/4170794/natalie-cole/?iid=toc%5F010716) Singer and Songwriter [Review: More Advice From the Tidy Queen in Marie Kondo’s Spark Joy](http://time.com/4170795/advice-from-the-tidy-queen-now-with-illustrations/?iid=toc%5F010716) This time, with illustrations [9 Questions With Hoda Kotb](http://time.com/4170797/9-questions-with-hoda-kotb/?iid=toc%5F010716) The co-host of the Today show’s fourth hour talks about her new book, Where We Belong, career paths and how to drink wine on television ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4170817/in-the-latest-issue-55/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4170817/in-the-latest-issue-55/"},"headline":"In the Latest Issue (7 Jan 2016)","datePublished":"2016-01-07T11:57:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T19:58:37.396Z","description":"Donald Trump’s Art of the Steal How the real estate magnate took the Republican Party from its old bosses A Campaign Like No Other...","url":"https://time.com/4170817/in-the-latest-issue-55/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a379b2ca6b4132d/698877e5196cf47d89039ba1/trump-cover-final.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a379b2ca6b4132d/698877e5196cf47d89039ba1/trump-cover-final.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"How Trump Won Time Magazine Cover 160118","caption":"How Trump Won Time Magazine Cover","creditText":"Photograph by Mark Peterson—Redux","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":"https://time.com/4170817/in-the-latest-issue-55/","name":"In the Latest Issue (7 Jan 2016)"}}]}] ```