TIME MAGAZINE SNAPPED
Time doesn’t get to be indignant.
…It literally says “President of the Divided States of America” right there on the cover, its not a flattering piece. Maybe if you actually did a little research you’d see that Person of the Year is not about virtue or positivity, its always been about influence and impact and there is no denying that Trump defined 2016 even if it was in the worst possible way.
The framing of the cover is deliberately arranged so the M appears like devil horns on his head, and the posing is deliberately set to mirror the Time cover from 1941 depicting Hitler. Time also published numerous articles in 2016 heavily criticizing him; the August 22 cover of last year featured Trump’s melting face with the headline MELTDOWN (because he was having another one; I can’t tell you which one at this point, there’s been so many, but I’m sure it’s on Twitter).
Time absolutely gets to be indignant.
I am begging people to remember that “person of the year” has never been about praising one great person. It’s about influence. Iirc hitler himself was a time person of the year. So was Stalin. Not because time sang their praises but because they changed the world for better or worse. Because hitler and Stalin and trump are/were incredibly influential on the world. They changed everything around them and everything that came after them. They’re monsters, absolutely and should not be praised. Time is not praising them. Learn to read a damn article before you give the headline a cursory glance and decide you know everything.
Yep.
