Trump’s brain is trapped in the 1980s. Like his preoccupation with legacy network television, he’s always been inordinately fixated on the dominant news magazines and Time specifically. So I’m guessing he noticed and was monitoring the reaction to it, for self-gratification-purposes.

Like his unhinged reaction to his vagina neck photo recently (scroll down): https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/real-reason-trump-lost-over-020854953.html