The faces on the cover of TIME Magazine‘s latest issue may seem familiar but different. On the cover is a morphed image of popular men in the world the U.S President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
The cover story addresses the Helsinki Summit between the two presidents and Trump’s comment after being asked who he believed between the U.S lawmakers, the intelligence community, and Putin on whether Russia interfered President Trump had said: “I have confidence in both parties,” he said. “I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.”

The composite image, by visual artist @nancyburson, is meant to represent this particular moment in U.S. foreign policy, following the pair’s recent meeting in Helsinki. As our senior White House correspondent writes in this week’s cover story: “A year and a half into his presidency, Trump’s puzzling affinity for #Putin has yet to be explained.

#Trump is bruised by the idea that Russian election meddling taints his victory, those close to him say, and can’t concede the fact that Russia did try to interfere in the election, regardless of whether it impacted the outcome. He views this problem entirely through a political lens, these people say, unable or unwilling to differentiate between the question of whether his campaign colluded with #Russia—which he denies—and the question of whether Russia attempted to influence the election.”

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