“President” of (what used to be) the world’s greatest power, and this is what obsesses him:
Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 24, 2017
I got that same call! https://t.co/Do5I1g1KuV
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 24, 2017
Only way this could have been better is if he’d ended it with “Bite me!” instead https://t.co/GZuo2IRMuc
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) November 25, 2017
The President is incorrect about how we choose Person of the Year. TIME does not comment on our choice until publication, which is December 6.
— TIME (@TIME) November 25, 2017
Huh. If this is true, it means the President wasn't telling the truth about a purely ego-driven issue that has nothing to do with protecting the United
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 25, 2017
Have I pointed out recently that this is all the Republicans’ fault? Good job, GOP!
How many times has an organization had to fact-check the president of the United States this year? https://t.co/j4MwOCQ4Zi
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 25, 2017
I worked at Time mag for 15 years. Doesn’t work this way.
1. Time tries to interview/shoot several possibilities
2. Agreeing to shoot/interview not a condition of being picked
DJT probably angling to set up “I didn’t want it” when he doesn’t get picked (2x/row would be unusual) https://t.co/3Vh43BdKD5— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) November 24, 2017
He gets worked up over Time Magazine's Man of the Year Award almost every year. Like clockwork. pic.twitter.com/27TnDTguAD
— Adam White (@adamjwhitedc) November 24, 2017
Time should give it to Hillary, just to mess with him
— David Frum (@davidfrum) November 24, 2017
Carter Page is willing to be Person of the Year and will make himself available for interviews and photo shoots as necessary :) pic.twitter.com/gdPCuuWKJb
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) November 25, 2017
I don’t know who’ll be Time’s 2017 Person of the Year, but I must say it would be nice if Robert Mueller turns out to be Time’s 2018 Person of the Year.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 25, 2017
If Time names Bob Mueller as its Man of the Year I’ll be a little more worried about war with North Korea tbh.
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 25, 2017
patrick II
I would like to see Trump picked as person of the year, along with several others who received the award in smaller pictures underneath — Hitler, Stalin, Kruschev, Khomeni. But, in that vein, I think they will go with Putin, the guy at the other end of Trump’s leash who has really had more influence, good or bad and mostly bad, than anyone else this past year.
Mnemosyne
Man, when Chris Cilizza is comfortable publicly mocking a Republican, you know we’re really through the looking glass.
Mnemosyne
@patrick II:
What if they go with Wilmer? ?
patrick II
@Mnemosyne:
In the good/bad dichotomy of Time picks, which one would Wilmer be?
James E. Powell
@Mnemosyne:
I will projectile vomit.
Major Major Major Major
What about Xi Jinping, or the Saudi guy? That’s who I would do.
Petorado
“Person of the Year’” no. A-hole of the year? Most definitely.
Amir Khalid
I remember when TIME selected me as Person of The Year. (Well, they picked “you”, and the article was addressing me the reader.) Nobody came to interview me or take my picture. So I’m suspicious of Trump’s claim.
aangus
@Amir Khalid:
LOL!
aangus
@Amir Khalid:
It’s 0219 local time here.
0719 GMT here.
What time there?
aangus
Just curious.
Major Major Major Major
@aangus: it’s 0719 GMT everywhere.
aangus
@Major Major Major Major:
LOL!
Very funny.
I was askin Amir..
Thank you..
Always Canuckistanian. :)
aangus
@Major Major Major Major:
Now that I’m retired, I can stay up all night and bullshit kike this, and I’m in the eastern time zone.
Just sayin’.
Major Major Major Major
@aangus: i find that if I stay up past 2:30 bullshitting, my head is all muzzy the next day.
hitchhiker
If Time picks Putin, Trump will act like he won something.
If they pick he #metoo people, he’ll act like it was a sop to liberal whiners.
If they pick him it will be historically unique (not really) & evidence that he should be made emperor of all the americas..
fuckwit
Jeezus fuck.
Troll has lost Chinchilla, Frum, AND Kristol??
Put a fork in him, he’s done.
Sab
@aangus: Your autocorrect feature is behaving badly.
Mike in DC
“I’ve always been big. It was the pictures that got small.”
fuckwit
@aangus: Your autocorrect has been reading Stormfront.
chrome agnomen
kike is the new covfefe
Major Major Major Major
@Sab: @fuckwit: ooh, yeah, that’s a nasty one.
I just checked on my phone and it didn’t try to get rid of the word either.
Johnny Gentle (famous crooner)
Of course he’s obsessed with Time. He’s even got a fake cover of himself hanging up in Mara Lago.
Sab
@aangus: My flip-phone says Malasia is 14 hours different, so US EST 3 am is 4 pm Malasia time. Is the international dateline in there somewhere? Is he 14 hours ahead of us or a day Behind?
I have a sibling who travels to Asia a lot. It’s always weird. I think I’m calling her at a reasonable hour EST, but instead I wake her up in the middle of the night because she’s off in Asia again.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Pivot
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Bernie Woulda Won Person of the Year
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Uh-oh! Looks like Drumpf will be on Time’s cover (photo)
Sab
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Not man of the year, just usual pack of criminal twerps?
Amir Khalid
@aangus:
Malaysian time is 12 hours ahead of EST.
Amir Khalid
@Sab:
The difference varies with the time of year — MalaYsia is an equatorial country, and doesn’t have daylight saving time — and I can never quite remember how DST affects it..
Elizabelle
Good morning, jackals. Gonna see the Nobel Museum (hello, Mssrs Obama and Dylan), maybe the big sunken but raised warship (the Vasa). Grey day here, but this town does coffee well.
Happy holiday weekend to us all.
Sab
@Amir Khalid: So my flip-phone was wrong. Oh well. Are you in Nov. 25 , Nov. 24 or Nov. 26?
Zinsky
The Mango Mussolini’s ego is far larger than his brain or his genitalia. Keep praying for a massive stroke…
Amir Khalid
@Sab:
It’s the 25th.
Sab
@Amir Khalid: So that’s easy math. Twelve hours ahead for EST. More complicated for PST but they’ll figure it out. They always do.
burnspbesq
@fuckwit:
He never had Frum.
burnspbesq
@Sab:
That works out for the best sometimes. A number of years ago, I got a call at 5:00 a.m. in Bangalore from a friend in SoCal who didn’t know I was traveling. Since I was awake, I turned on the TV and saw that the Mumbai airport (out of which I was supposed to be flying that night) was under four feet of water. Frantic calls to corporate travel ensued, and they found another way out for me.
Smut Clyde
Why would TIME need Trump to pose for a photograph? The whole point of a white hood is that anyone could be wearing it.
Waspuppet
He’s afraid of the interview. Hasn’t given a real one since he confessed obstruction of justice to Lester Holt.
trnc
My money is on Comey for MOTY.
Lurking Canadian
Why would he do this? Why tell an easily debunked, obvious lie when he could just keep his damned pie hole shut? This is the textbook example of an unforced error. What the hell is wrong with him?
Colleeniem
@Elizabelle: Visit the Vasa! It’s so worth your time.
father pusbucket
@burnspbesq: Frum said he voted for Hillary.
rk
I think Time should put the 16 women who accused Trump of sexual harassment on the cover and call it the year of the women. And I hope Trump keels over from a heart attack when he sees it. Hillary did not win, but she unleashed something important.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Lurking Canadian:
Because Trump spent decades as a sleazy New York real estate operator and self-promoter, and the worst blowback he got was “Oh, that’s the Donald being the Donald.” Even as a candidate he got the same treatment. He was completely unprepared for being in a public office where everything he says is going to be recorded, checked, rechecked and debunked.
Also, his narcissism won’t let him not say bullshit like this. He is mentally ill. To look for strategery, or lack of it, is futile.
Uncle Cosmo
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Perp Walk Of The
YearMillenium! :^Dscav
@Colleeniem: I so hope she visited the Wasa too, AND that she has time to go to Skansen. I’m pretty sure they do extra stuff for Xmas as well, but I’ve only been in spring/summer.
Librarian
Kate Upton called and begged me to go out with her, but I was rearranging my sock drawer, so I said no and hung up on her.
Librarian
The Swedish Academy called and said that I would PROBABLY win the Nobel peace prize, but I would have to agree to an interview and photo shoot. I said probably wasn’t good enough and hung up.
Avi
Soprano2
My husband said someone should give Trump an award like “Greatest Liar of the Year” just to see what he does.
Villago Delenda Est
@Librarian: That’s funny. It was Scarlett Johansson calling me up for a date!
Villago Delenda Est
@Avi: Upfist for this one.