Donald Trump Has Appeared on the Cover of TIME More Than Anyone Else

It was 35 days before the midterm elections and President Donald Trump wanted to talk about dirt.Standing on the White House lawn, outside the Residence, he told us about the poor conditions his predecessors had left in the world’s most famous home office. Dirty walls. The dirt that visitors, especially those in high heels, confronted when they visited the Rose Garden, before his installation of a patio. Most pressing of all, the dirt that Marine One had to land in before he completed his newest addition to the complex, a 100-ft.-wide helipad. “The happiest people were the pilots,” he said of the change. “They would land in the mud.”The night before, Trump had been greeted at the helipad by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his wife Cami Clark, who joined the President for a late-night dinner. It was part of another whirlwind week that included a speech before the U.N. General Assembly and hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his delegation at the White House—name cards for leading attendees were still on the walk outside the Oval Office when we visited—as well as an Air Force One flyover of the Texas-Tennessee football game, a visit to the Presidents Cup golf tournament outside C...