The Economist's Feb. 11 Cover: Trump, Putin and a Lipstick Kiss

A cover to top red-eyed Putin

The image on The Economist’s newest cover, Courting Russia, is a variation on a theme: President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in profile, close enough that they could almost kiss. In The Economist’s black and white and pink version, the implication is that a kiss has already happened, the pink imprint of rounded lips on Putin’s cheek a match to the pink stain on Trump’s lips.

It’s not the first outré cover art the magazine has published relating to either president.

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