--- title: TIME Wins Best Cover ASME for Donald Trump Total Meltdown description: TIME has won the American Society of Magazine Editors Cover of the Year award for its Oct. 24, 2016, cover, an illustration created by... canonical: https://time.com/4664419/time-meltdown-best-cover/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-08T21:35:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:05.507Z article:section: Press Room og:title: TIME's 'Total Meltdown' Cover Recognized as ASME Cover of the Year og:description: Illustration by Edel Rodriguez og:url: https://time.com/4664419/time-meltdown-best-cover/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME's 'Total Meltdown' Cover Recognized as ASME Cover of the Year twitter:description: Illustration by Edel Rodriguez twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # TIME's 'Total Meltdown' Cover Recognized as ASME Cover of the Year > Sponsored content. 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TIME Editor-in-Chief Nancy Gibbs delivered the following remarks at the [American Magazine Media Conference](http://www.magazine.org/events/conferences/american-magazine-media-conference-2017) in New York Wednesday: _The word magazine shares a root with the medieval French word for a warehouse, a treasury, or a place to store ammunition._ _It suggests a container for that which is useful, valuable, sometimes dangerous._ _This is where we all live now, and why magazines matter more than ever._ _Last summer when candidate Trump was in a battle with everyone from a gold star family to leaders within his own party, I asked TIME Creative Director D.W. Pine to help us find the image to capture this moment which he produced with artist Edel Rodriguez, which we returned to again in the fall after the release of the “Access Hollywood” tapes._ _In the end, that which melted returned to form, and won the day, and it is the story of a lifetime._ _It is unfolding hour by hour, week by week, tweet by tweet; he has come after us, he has come after us all, he has come after the very principles of truth and accountability, and we intend to cover, and uncover, and capture all of this, to speak to everyone, to listen to everyone, because what we do is useful, and valuable, and sometimes dangerous._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4664419/time-meltdown-best-cover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4664419/time-meltdown-best-cover/"},"headline":"TIME's 'Total Meltdown' Cover Recognized as ASME Cover of the Year","datePublished":"2017-02-08T21:35:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:05.507Z","description":"TIME has won the American Society of Magazine Editors Cover of the Year award for its Oct. 24, 2016, cover, an illustration created by...","url":"https://time.com/4664419/time-meltdown-best-cover/","keywords":["Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Press Room","image":[],"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/press-room/","name":"Press Room"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4664419/time-meltdown-best-cover/","name":"TIME's 'Total Meltdown' Cover Recognized as ASME Cover of the Year"}}]}] ```