Congratulations to President-elect @realDonaldTrump on being named as @TIME Person of the Year! You deserve it! #MAGA @TeamTrump pic.twitter.com/oY8OuHA3C0
— Josh Gremillion (@joshgremillion) December 7, 2016
Donald J. Trump, our future man-in-charge, has a real love-hate relationship with the press.
When the press points out that he lies, twists the truth, changes his mind every half hour, and lies some more, he doesn’t exactly feel all warm and fuzzy about them.
If the press would cover me accurately & honorably, I would have far less reason to "tweet." Sadly, I don't know if that will ever happen!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 5, 2016
.@CNN is so embarrassed by their total (100%) support of Hillary Clinton, and yet her loss in a landslide, that they don't know what to do.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016
When the press awards him with even the slightest praise, (or in his terms, “Says nice things about me.”), he loves them.
Of course, by “press,” I really mean “Fox News.”
.@FoxNews will be re-running "Objectified: Donald Trump," the ratings hit produced by the great Harvey Levin of TMZ, at 8:00 P.M. Enjoy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016
He must have been delighted when he found out he was named “TIME’s Person of the Year”.
I can hear it now. I can imagine the conversation that took place in the gold and diamond encrusted bathroom of Trump Tower’s Penthouse.
“Melania,” I can imagine Donald saying, as he smiles into the mirror over the marble sink. “TIME loves me so bigly! They’re tremendous! The greatest! The know I’m the best thing that ever happened to this country. I deserve all kinds of awards!”
“Yes, dahling, you are so special….,” mumbled from under the satin and ermine duvet in the bedroom. Snoring sound resumes.
“I’m so special. I’m the most special. The Personest person of the whole year.” I can see him smoothing back one neon orange lock of hair and tilting his head back to hide some of his chins.
I imagine this monologue going on throughout the day, with only the audience changing.
Trump probably celebrated right up to the moment when one of his flunkies carefully mentioned that not every “Person of the Year” was chosen because he was such a great guy.
Or if none of the President-elect’s inner circle dared to let him know that fact, it’s certain that one of his many Twitter connections would have been happy to.
Someone must have let him know that he shares the distinction of being “Person of the Year” with some truly vile humans.
Take Adolph Hitler, for example. He was named Person of the Year in 1938. The Trump-Hitler comparisons have been bouncing around for months, now. Just added fuel to the fire, “TIME!”
And Josef Stalin, another murderous tyrannical dictator, won the honor twice. Once in 1938, and again in 1942.
Then there’s the Ayatollah Khomeini, who rose to power in Iran after finally persuading the public to turn on the Shah of Iran and his puppet masters in Washington. The Ayatollah was the first really powerful Islamist dictator in the region. His rise marked the end of American power in that part of the world. He was chosen by TIME in 1979.
But at least Mr. Trump can take some comfort in knowing that his best pal, Vladimir Putin, is also on the list. The homophobic little Russian despot was named Person of the Year in 2007.
He and Trump can get together and toast each other’s awards with shots of ice cold Trump vodka.
The rest of us will be wondering what TIME knows about the next 12 months they aren’t telling us. They must have been sending us some kind of message with that photo.
Featured image via Twitter Screenshot
