In case you haven’t heard, Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears on the front of the April issue of Time, which was unveiled on Thursday morning, accompanied by a lengthy cover story about all of the winning he’s doing for President Trump — provided he can manage to keep his job for long enough. (The very fact that Sessions is appearing on the cover in the first place also does not bode well in his favor.)
Despite the constant, tumultuous, behind-the-scenes conflict plaguing the Trump administration, the piece paints the former Alabama Senator as optimistic about his work for the White House.
As the chaos in the White House rages and threatens to consume him, Sessions professes to pay it no heed. “I want to do what the President wants me to do,” he said in his slow, drawling voice, his blue-green eyes peering over the top of his glasses. A wry smirk lifted a corner of his lips. “But I do feel like we’re advancing the agenda that he believes in. And what’s good for me is it’s what I believe in too.”
Whether or not Sessions will ever find his way back into Trump’s good graces is not what’s getting people talking, however — rather the portrait on the cover, which looks like this:
TIME's new cover: The trials of Jeff Sessions, featuring an exclusive interview https://t.co/j9ru5PSEJ7 pic.twitter.com/nBtA8exiML
— TIME (@TIME) March 29, 2018
It is, in a word: terrifying! The magazine cover unsurprisingly drew some apt comparisons on Twitter, speculation that this could be the final nail in Sessions’ coffin, as well as other observations.
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/979326662453223424
Time has Jeff Sessions looking like the crypt keeper pic.twitter.com/0zGipLMsTk
— John (@john_j_3) March 29, 2018
— Scott Tobias (@scott_tobias) March 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/SarahLerner/status/979326082183716865
Time Mag seals Jeff Sessions fate pic.twitter.com/8fume61MTf
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) March 29, 2018
Jeff Sessions is on the cover of TIME.
Remember, Trump was reportedly bothered and annoyed last year when Bannon was on the cover of TIME. pic.twitter.com/AHQ5kwnroZ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 29, 2018
Jeff Sessions: I’m not racist. I have a black soul. pic.twitter.com/kK0Uk7hxJx
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/Redpainter1/status/979344046073237505
The devil is busy, and his name is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. pic.twitter.com/WRkjBNgivx
— Britni Danielle (@BritniDWrites) March 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/JackSmithIV/status/979386895229771776
my man looking like he's about to trick some fat little German kids into climbing into his cauldron pic.twitter.com/QDrnK4pEw2
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) March 29, 2018
(Via Time)