Time Magazine Literally Brings The Gavel Down On Trump In Brutal New Cover

Time magazine wasted little, well, time in showing off an upcoming front page after former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial conviction on Thursday.

The publication posted the cover of its June 24 edition — featuring a new illustration by Cuban American artist Edel Rodriguez — several weeks early on X, formerly Twitter.

The image showed a gavel being brought down on a sound block styled as an abstract interpretation of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s face:

Rodriguez has mockingly portrayed Trump for the outlet on multiple previous occasions, showing the convicted ex-POTUS as literally melting down , as a peach during his first impeachment for extorting Ukraine, and as a wrecking ball dismantling the national government.

In 2018, Rodriguez marked Trump’s first year in office with this illustration of the then-president’s hair as fire:

He also tackled Trump’s disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic with this image of him sporting a misplaced face mask:

For Germany’s Der Spiegel , meanwhile, Rodriguez has illustrated Trump as a Statue of Liberty-decapitating lunatic , an asteroid headed for Earth , and a menacing figure in a Ku Klux Klan hood .

Rodriguez, who fled Cuba for America as a child, told HuffPost in 2017 that his antipathy toward Trump stemmed from growing up under a brutal dictatorship on the Caribbean island.