Donald Trump has some ~feelings~ about TIME. You see, he really likes the idea of being selected for the magazine’s coveted Person of the Year cover, and gets pretty fussy when it seems like that might not happen. Tweets about Trump’s TIME tweet will…
Donald Trump has some ~feelings~ about TIME. You see, he really likes the idea of being selected for the magazine’s coveted Person of the Year cover, and gets pretty fussy when it seems like that might not happen. Tweets about Trump’s TIME tweet will make you want to laugh, cry, and pack up all your belongings and move to a new country. I’m right behind you, by the way.
The drama all began when Trump took to Twitter on Nov. 24 with what I can only describe as his cattiest tweet yet. Like, it was just super, super unnecessary. We were all just trying to enjoy the remainder of the holiday, eat some leftover pumpkin pie, and have a few moments of uninterrupted bliss.
He wrote,
TIME swiftly noted that there were some errors in his statement, writing,
The publication doubled down on their denial, with TIME’ s Chief Content Officer Alan Murray also taking to Twitter on Nov. 24 to write,
Namely, they didn’t believe him. They really, REALLY didn’t believe him.
@realDonaldTrump ‘My girlfriend, in Canada, is super hot’
@realDonaldTrump Sure they did.
@realDonaldTrump Ya right. https://t.co/p4FrcNFQkY
@lftbronson @realDonaldTrump
Maybe Time magazine can name Donald Trump as phony of the year. https://t.co/aH2XpXwDop
@realDonaldTrump Liar! You would do anything to be on the cover. Why would you even report this?
Cherie was PROBABLY slated to be TIME’s Feline of the Year but declined the obligatory interview because she is a cat.
Donald Trump: I am not going to be @TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year. Twitter users: https://t.co/WrtAitXlnc
I’m not sure I believe Donald Trump would turn down @TIME Magazine’s ‘Man of The Year’. This is the man who made fake Time magazine covers featuring himself and hung them in his Mar-a-lago resort. https://t.co/qgU3dairqI
congrats to Donald Trump on winning Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ electoral vote
@politico @ejgold94 Hopefully this will the cover page the next time Donald Trump appears on the cover of TIME magazine.
I think the big takeaway here is that if you call Donald Trump and say you’re with Time Magazine he will believe you
If Time Magazine really wants to mess with Donald Trump, it should give “Person of the Year” to Robert Mueller.
It’s worth noting that the Person of the Year award has been very important to the president in the past. He was pretty miffed back in 2015, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel was awarded the title over him and took to Twitter to vent his frustrations.
I told you @TIME Magazine would never pick me as person of the year despite being the big favorite They picked person who is ruining Germany
When he did get named Person of the Year in 2016, he was over the moon.
“It’s a great honor,” Trump told NBC’s “Today” show in Dec. 2016. “It means a lot, especially me growing up reading TIME Magazine. And it’s a very important magazine, and I’ve been lucky enough to be on the cover many times this year — and last year. But I consider this a very, very great honor.”
Need additional proof that Trump really, really cares about being on the cover of TIME Magazine?
The Washington Post reported in June that there are framed pictures of Trump on a fake TIME’s Person of the Year cover hanging in at least five of the president’s gulf clubs.
“Donald Trump: The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!” one headline reads, alongside another headline written in all caps: “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS . .. EVEN TV!”
“I can confirm that this is not a real TIME cover,” Kerri Chyka, a spokeswoman for TIME Inc., told The Washington Post .
The president hasn’t seemed to have quite made up his mind about TIME. Does he love them? Hate them? A little bit of both? Despite all his grand statements about the publication being an “important magazine,” he has also tweeted a number of deragatory statements as well. Like in 2012, when he tweeted,
That very same year he slammed the publication again, writing,
It’s hard when you can’t quite make up your mind about something or someone. Might I humbly suggest that the president buy a diary, and really get out all his rollercoaster feelings in there? Meanwhile, we’ll enjoy what’s left of this brief holiday.
