Donald Trump tried his hand at a Churchillian pose, casting a confident gaze as he sat atop the Resolute desk for a Time magazine profile that came out Thursday where he promoted his base-driven political strategy.

Trump is rejecting a strategy of trying to focus on reaching out to swing voters through calculated appeals that draw majority support.

Instead, he is doubling down on his plan to fire up his most loyal supporters with attacks on Democrats, the Russia probe, and would-be illegal immigrants.

“I think my base is so strong, I’m not sure that I have to do that,” Trump told the magazine in an Oval Office interview.

President Trump on the cover of Time Magazine.

I suspect he will like this cover unlike the others during his presidency.

Cover story by: @ByBrianBennett https://t.co/rU19Y4v7ev pic.twitter.com/CsnUvvzqcv

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 20, 2019

His words were backed up by his Tuesday night campaign launch, where he bashed “Crooked Hillary Clinton” and the “phony dossier.” He said of Democrats: “They will strip Americans of their Constitutional rights while flooding the country with illegal immigrants in the hopes it will expand their political base and they’ll get votes someplace down the future. That’s what it’s about.”

Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale, who pushed back after March leaked polls showed Trump trailing in battleground states, described the strategy as “turnout, turnout, turnout.”

“People all think you have to change people’s minds. You have to get people to show up that believe in you,” he said.

Former campaign guru and chief White House strategist Steve Bannon described the mission as: “You have to get every f****** deplorable. Everybody’s got to show up.”

Twitter had some thoughts:

@TIME, making this your cover story (and with a flattering picture, no less) is catering to this narcissistic con man and furthering his illegitimate, lawless presidency. #Time #ImpeachmentInquiryNOW

— Facts First (@factsfirst2017) June 20, 2019

Not touching it, Not buying it, Not reading it!

— Helen B (@HelenBUltraBlue) June 20, 2019

They spent extra time in Photoshop on this one. Pants fit, little gut, no second chin(s), fingers longer, hair adjusted.

— The DAM Archivist (@thedamarchivist) June 20, 2019