By now, you’ve seen the front cover of TIME‘s new issue; pored over Tweets from 19-year-olds who are furious Trump has been named “Person of the Year,” and skimmed Facebook posts from 29-year-olds reminding everyone Adolf Hitler shared the title back in 1933, and it’s not a “tremendous honor,” as Donald Trump seems to think it is.
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But did you happen to notice that there might be a shady secret message printed on the cover? As GQ points out, Trump’s head appears strategically placed under the “M” so that it looks like he’s Satan, The Horned One, Our Infernal Father of Pestilence:
— Siddhant Adlakha (@SidizenKane) December 7, 2016
Is everybody reading too much into this, or is TIME’s art department trying their hand at being sly? Hard to say, but if we were Satan’s, we’d be really pissed right now.
AntBee
Time magazine has been dead to me, for many many years, and this latest attempt at whatever the hell it is trying to get across, doesn’t do a damn thing for me. The magazine could even outright say that it sees trump as Satan, and name all of the horrible things he has said and done over the last 30-odd years, including the past two where he showed the world just what a sickening human being can be.
So, screw Time magazine and its hidden-in-plain-sight slight to trump. The people who supported him will not even see that. They will just see their fearless leader on the cover, and as person of the year. Nothing matters to them, what matters to other people. They showed that when they voted for him. Screw them, too!
justgeo
Looks Like an archaic drawing of an ASS piece of shit to me. Proves there is not truth or spine in Ameriken Media.
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ingyaom
Don’t forget Bush, Jr. – Didn’t Trump call him the worst pres. ever? He was Man of the Year twice (2000, 2004), as was Stalin (also twice), Obama (maybe Trump called him the worst pres. ever too), the Ayatollah Khomeini, Nixon, etc… so how much of an “honor” can Trump really claim it to be?
Hussain-TheCanadian
God forbid they’d put the picture of the Dakota Line protesters, the Native Indian Tribes, and the veterans fighting against big business.
ErikO
@Hussain-TheCanadian: Exactly. Time magazine has been a joke for decades. The way the left compares Trump to Hitler or other dictators is a reason why he won.
FlyBy
@ErikO: Pretty much. Now Time is helping add one more segment of society to Trump’s basket of deplorables – Satanic Worshippers. Though he probably had that niche locked up long ago – otherwise known as Republicans.
dgsea06
Perfect TIME Mag cover. Now, let’s see what, if anything, The New Yorker comes up with.
Don’t I wish…
dwes09
Time’s man of the year is not necessarily an honor, and they make that quite clear. Trump is just not astute enough to understand that. In their description of why he won it is quite clear they do not intend it as an honor in his case, but simply an acknowledgement of how he has shaken things up; and whether that is for bad or good remains to be seen.
1EqualityUSA
Google the black, silouetted photo of Clinton’s Time Magazine cover. I saw what looked to be little horns poking out through her hair. This visual was created by the dead space of the M’s x-line and cap line, and hairline and diagonal stroke. It was so obvious that I had taken a photo of it at the “Time.”
will44
I for one am cancelling my subscription immediately. It’s kind of at the end of road anyway.
1EqualityUSA
Forgot my “h” on silhouetted. Peet’s coffee, kick in! I didn’t cancel our subscription because of Clinton’s horns.
Opine2
God you snowflakes make me sick, if the Hilary bitch had won it you would be scream from the roof top about how wonderful it was.
Arconcyyon
He is he yes Trump the live age live eary´s gringu celebrety millionry playfamilyboy the writy boook writy the PEOPLE FAMOSUS “TIME” . no dont´s no yes .
RIGay
Cancelled that subscription decades ago. Put TIME right up there with “National Inquirer” and “The Today Show” for journalistic excellence.
Meh.
Bob LaBlah
Whether we like it or not (and I don’t like it) Trump won because he was ran against weak, uninspiring candidates on both sides of the aisle. Its just that simple. We have no leaders at present and we are soon going to regret this mistake of not grooming leaders for the future.
Mike
@will44:
Time gives the Person of the Year award to someone who “for better or for worse…has done the most to influence the events of the year.” This doesn’t mean they like the person or support his or her programs — as many have mentioned, they gave it to Hitler in 1933. Hitler deserved it, and so does Trump, who totally upended the American election process in a way that no one thought possible.
Bob LaBlah
@RIGay: Hasn’t the Today Show hit the skids these past few years? It now seems criminal for NBC to keep that show alive. I prefer an updated version of the Winchell Mahoney show in that time slot than that piece of garbage.
wmca_goodguys
For me Time magazine has been irrelevant for years.
Kieran
Alright, so Donald Trump is TIME “Man of the Year”. Like we all didn’t know that already. Can we now all go back to ignoring TIME magazine like we usually do?
alterego1980
Looks more like cat ears than horns. He looks like a cat. Some should make a Trump furry meme. Get on that!!
sdsinmpls
How about “M is for Moron”?
mujerado
@ingyaom: Time’s Man/Person of the Year was never meant to be an honor or a condemnation. It’s not the best or worst person of the year. It’s the person who influenced the news the most during the year, nothing more, nothing less.
john.k
@mujerado: Quite so – the person who had the most impact for good or ill!
Doug
@AntBee: I completely agree. Trump’s supporters are already hailing Time magazine’s piece as a victory; the majority of them, believe it or not, can’t grasp that this is not particularly a complimentary article. In the meantime, I grew up reading Time but will definitely not be reading it anymore. Like a lot of the press who vilified Trump during the election, now that he’s about to be President they’re slowly moving into position to begin kissing his ass and finding peculiar ways to praise him, and Time’s article seems to be awkwardly straddling the fence in order to do that.
dwes09
@Opine2: “God you snowflakes make me sick, if the Hilary bitch had won it you would be scream from the roof top about how wonderful it was.”
Clearly you are yet another dullard who has not been paying attention to either Trump’s statements and actions since his election, or to his appointments so far. He has very limited understanding of the constitution, his duties or how to deal with the current state of the country (which is far better than he or the fools who voted for him “believe”).
And he is no friend to gay people as all his appointments make clear. But you’re a breeder troll anyway, so who really cares about your doltish comments. F###in sore winner (even though he lost the popular vote by 3,000,000), and more of a snowflake than any of us could ever be!!
BriBri
Seriously, the folks at Time aren’t clever enough to engineer a subliminal message like that, they can barely manage direct messages.
alanballs
It appears to be the same photo (copy-paste, cropped and applied to a different background) of Frump shaking hands with President Obama at the WH.
alanballs
@Opine2: if I weren’t such a nice person, I’d tell you to “bite me”.
GayEGO
Time will tell…… and who knows what Trump will do!
Herman75
@alterego1980: YES. This is their homage to “grab the pussy”
Meeeowwww!!!!!
aidanbh
This “satanic” proposition is really clutching at straws. A portrait photograph is generally centralised. The M letter in “TIME” is centralised. Ergo, they end up in the same position. There is nothing fishy about it.
highestbidder
I haven’t read that rag in 20 years. Is it still printed?