A European magazine just crossed a line that few outlets dare to touch. Its latest cover shows Donald Trump portrayed as Adolf Hitler. The image appears on the January 9 edition of Objektiv, a Slovenian weekly magazine supplement published by the newspaper Dnevnik.
The cover shows Trump’s face with thick black oil dripping from beneath his nose, positioned to resemble Hitler’s infamous mustache. Beneath the image is a sharp subhead: “American Attack on Venezuela.”
Good morning to Melania Trump’s homeland of Slovenia and to this amazing magazine cover showing her husband with Hitler moustache made of crude oil. 🇸🇮🇪🇺
Slovenes cooked severely here. pic.twitter.com/jC8pkN9wRO
— Omne Europa (@neolatyno) January 8, 2026
The message is not subtle. And it was clearly meant to provoke.
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Trump has long bristled at comparisons to authoritarian leaders, but this one lands differently. The cover arrives just days after Trump ordered U.S. special forces to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and fly him to New York, a move that shocked foreign governments and rattled even close allies.
Critics have compared Trump to Hitler before, often pointing to his language on nationalism, immigration, and the press. Those comparisons intensified after a December 2023 reelection event where Trump said illegal immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.”
He later doubled down on Truth Social, writing in all caps: “illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. They’re coming from prisons, from mental institutions—from all over the world.”
Historians and critics quickly noted that Adolf Hitler used the phrase “blood poisoning” when writing about immigration in Mein Kampf.
Trump has always rejected the analogy.
Speaking to 60 Minutes, he pushed back hard. “They call me a Nazi all the time,” Trump said. “I’m not a Nazi, I’m the opposite. I’m somebody that’s saving our country. But they call me [a] Nazi.”
This latest depiction may sting more than previous ones because of its context. Trump’s Venezuela operation was framed as a strike against a criminal regime, but his own words complicated that narrative. He admitted there are no immediate plans for elections and said he would personally oversee the country’s direction.
“We have to fix the country first. You can’t have an election. There’s no way the people could even vote,” Trump said.
At the same time, Trump confirmed that millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil would be transferred to the United States. That admission fueled claims that the intervention had less to do with democracy and more to do with resources, exactly the argument the Objektiv cover appears to endorse.
The symbolism cuts even deeper given where it comes from. Slovenia is the country of birth of Melania Trump. For a Slovenian publication to issue such a cover feels, to many observers, like a deliberate twist of the knife.
The cover was designed by Tomaž Košir, a well-known illustrator whose past work has appeared in The Guardian and Politico. Košir has previously used Trump imagery for Objektiv, including a cover that portrayed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with Trump’s distinctive hairstyle, a jab at EU trade concessions to the U.S.
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