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The Stories Behind Donald Trump's TIME Covers
Not exactly complimentary now are they?!
Trump, whose presidency comes to end this week, has always had a fascination with TIME. He first landed on the cover on Jan. 16, 1989, 28 years before his inauguration, with the headline “This Man May Turn You Green With Envy – or Just Turn You Off. Flaunting it is His Game, and Trump is his Name.”
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His continued interest was evident during his first full day as commander-in-chief when Trump, standing in front of a memorial to intelligence agents killed in the line of duty, told a gathering of national security officials, “I have been on their cover like 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time Magazine. If Tom Brady is on the cover it’s one time because you won the Super Bowl or something, right? I’ve been on the cover 15 times this year. I don’t think that’s a record that could ever be broken.” At the time, Trump had been on 11 covers. He did not then, nor does he now, hold the record of most TIME covers. More on that later too.
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Since before his election, Trump regularly politicked to be named TIME’s Person of the Year (he was recognized as such in 2016), using campaign rallies and his now-locked Twitter feed to comment on TIME’s choices. And perhaps most notably, fake TIME covers were designed to hang in his golf course clubhouses, with cover lines exclaiming that “Trump is hitting it on all fronts … even TV!” The existence of the bogus covers, first reported by the Washington Post, prompted TIME to ask the TrumpOrganization to remove them.
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We first introduced Candidate Trump to TIME’s readers in August 2015, when photographer Martin Schoeller and TIME Editor-at-Large Paul Moakley brought a live bald eagle to the Trump Tower in New York City for a portrait. The eagle was particularly animated during the photo and video session, prompting Trump to exclaim at one point, “I love TIME Magazine. What you will do for a cover … this bird is seriously dangerous and beautiful.” A clip of the bird nipping at the Republican candidate went viral.
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His continued interest was evident during his first full day as commander-in-chief when Trump, standing in front of a memorial to intelligence agents killed in the line of duty, told a gathering of national security officials, “I have been on their cover like 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time Magazine. If Tom Brady is on the cover it’s one time because you won the Super Bowl or something, right? I’ve been on the cover 15 times this year. I don’t think that’s a record that could ever be broken.” At the time, Trump had been on 11 covers. He did not then, nor does he now, hold the record of most TIME covers. More on that later too.
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Since before his election, Trump regularly politicked to be named TIME’s Person of the Year (he was recognized as such in 2016), using campaign rallies and his now-locked Twitter feed to comment on TIME’s choices. And perhaps most notably, fake TIME covers were designed to hang in his golf course clubhouses, with cover lines exclaiming that “Trump is hitting it on all fronts … even TV!” The existence of the bogus covers, first reported by the Washington Post, prompted TIME to ask the TrumpOrganization to remove them.
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We first introduced Candidate Trump to TIME’s readers in August 2015, when photographer Martin Schoeller and TIME Editor-at-Large Paul Moakley brought a live bald eagle to the Trump Tower in New York City for a portrait. The eagle was particularly animated during the photo and video session, prompting Trump to exclaim at one point, “I love TIME Magazine. What you will do for a cover … this bird is seriously dangerous and beautiful.” A clip of the bird nipping at the Republican candidate went viral.
more https://time.com/5928282/donald-trump-time-covers/
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