The Story Behind TIME’s President Trump ‘Year One’ Cover

Jan 11, 2018, 11:43 PM

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In the year and a half since the artist Edel Rodriguez made his "Meltdown" cover for TIME, his orange-and-yellow depiction of Donald Trump has become emblematic. In encore covers for TIME (and for German magazine Der Spiegel), he has repeatedly reinvented the graphic concept to respond to the news cycle. This week, as the anniversary of Trump's inauguration approaches, and the White House responds to Michael Wolff's explosive book Fire and Fury, Rodriguez came up with some flames of his own.