--- title: Donald Trump: Magazine Covers From the Start of his Tenure description: President Trump's second week in office, as seen on the front of magazine covers around the world canonical: https://time.com/4659951/donald-trump-magazine-covers-presidency/ author: Andrew Katz article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-03T20:20:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:06.460Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump's No Good, Very Bad Week on Magazine Covers og:description: These five aren't likely to end up on his wall. og:url: https://time.com/4659951/donald-trump-magazine-covers-presidency/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6016a0bd62f3aace/6988b8bdcf40a8564ac46568/trump-magazine-covers-facebook.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1796 og:image:height: 1131 og:image:alt: trump-magazine-covers-facebook og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump's No Good, Very Bad Week on Magazine Covers twitter:description: These five aren't likely to end up on his wall. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6016a0bd62f3aace/6988b8bdcf40a8564ac46568/trump-magazine-covers-facebook.jpg?branch=production ---  # President Trump's No Good, Very Bad Week on Magazine Covers  by [Andrew Katz](https://time.com/author/andrew-katz/)  ## Andrew Katz Feb 3, 2017 8:20 PM UTC   by [Andrew Katz](https://time.com/author/andrew-katz/)  ## Andrew Katz Feb 3, 2017 8:20 PM UTC President Trump loves to be on the covers of [magazines](http://time.com/4471113/donald-trump-magazine-covers/). Even before he ran for president, the New York real estate developer had been featured by countless publications over the years, from _Newsweek_ to _Fortune_ to _Playboy_ and seemingly everything in between. Some older ones hang on a wall of his Trump Tower office in Manhattan. “I have so many that I can’t put them up,” he [once told the Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/11/donald-trump-should-hate-this-time-magazine-cover-but-hell-probably-hang-it-in-his-office/?utm%5Fterm=.15b43fa76a59), which while filming in that office showed stacks, plural, on his desk that are fronted with his name and image. “So I’ve had a lot of fun.” The first magazine covers released in the [during his Administration](http://time.com/4657665/steve-bannon-donald-trump/) may not be the kind vying for space on his wall at Trump Tower or the Resolute desk in the Oval Office.  Courtesy of The New Yorker. Illustration: John W. Tomac  Courtesy of The Economist. Illustration: Miles Donovan  Courtesy of Der Spiegel. Illustration: Edel Rodriguez  Courtesy of Businessweek. 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