“This portrait of Trump gazing into a mirror and seeing a king gets to
the heart of how he and his legal team have approached this past week
and the past 500 days, actually,” O’Brien says. “Besides the usual
challenge of the short deadline and making the image work, whether or
not to have him looking at himself or looking at us was the thing I
pondered most. His eye contact with each reader, each American fits the
situation best.”

Time Magazine