For someone who's regularly accused of stretching the truth, at least President Trump's pants aren't on fire in an upcoming Time magazine cover.
Rather, it's his hair that's ablaze — a reference to the title of Michael Wolff's book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which has rocked his administration this month.
Time released a cover illustration Thursday ahead of Trump's inauguration anniversary and tapped artist Edel Rodriguez, who was critically acclaimed for his past Trump illustrations, for the job.
“I got a message from [Time Creative Director] D.W. Pine that they wanted to do a cover referencing what’s been going on with the Michael Wolff book, Fire and Fury, and also the anniversary of the inauguration, looking back to the past year,” Rodriguez told Time about the cover that leads with a headline, "Year One."
In addition to Wolff's book, Rodriguez said that the cover's flames were also inspired by Trump's comments that North Korea would be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen" if the reclusive nation continued to threaten the U.S.
“We used to live where the United States was a pretty steady country, and now you wake up every day and try to figure out where’s the next fire, where do we have to go, what do we have to try to contain,” Rodriguez said, according to Time. “It’s sort of this President that you’re always trying to contain, like a wildfire that’s moving from one place to the other at all times.”
Before his magazine cover, Rodriguez took to Twitter and mocked up an illustration he feels could have been the dust jacket for Wolff's book:
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