Edel Rodriguez Brings Fire and Fury to His Latest Stunning Trump Cover for Time Magazine

This is not a drill, says the Cuban-born illustrator

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Edel Rodriguez, the Cuban-born illustrator who’s designed several instantly iconic Donald Trump covers for Time magazine—and some even more shocking ones for Germany’s Der Spiegel—is out with his latest effort for Time.

And it’s incendiary indeed.

The new cover, marking the culmination of Trump’s first year in the White House, features the president with his signature orange hair turned a fiery yellow—and burning out of control. As with Rodriguez’s meltdown-themed Trump covers, the metaphor for a presidency in crisis couldn’t be more blunt, or visually striking.

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