Donald Trump Posts Fake News - Literal Proof of his Hypocrisy

[cubby]

Time Magazine has requested that Donald Trump remove several fake Time Magazine "Covers" featuring him prominently with a(nother) mention of his ratings and approval in regards to The Apprentice.

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His fragile ego knows no bounds. Deplorable continues to get more deplorable.

[Edge-]

Just another lie to toss onto the pile of blatant, baldface, petty lies.

But given that his supporters haven't cared thus far, what's another petty, narcissistic lie matter? I hope TIME sues the ever loving shit out of him for that.

[Haven]

Fight fakes with fakes. Confuse the shit out of people and keep doing your thing.

[Edge-]

Fight fakes with fakes. Confuse the shit out of people and keep doing your thing.

Are you seriously arguing that having your head of state lie about petty shit like this is a good thing? Just trying to clarify.

[Garnier Fructis]

Fight fakes with fakes. Confuse the shit out of people and keep doing your thing.

This is what happens when there's no good defense, but you must defend anyway.

[Enthusiastic Steward]

Fight fakes with fakes. Confuse the shit out of people and keep doing your thing.

This is only a plausible strategy if the date the fake covers were hung is known. If it was very recently, maybe. If they've been hanging for years and were only recently noticed, then no so much.

[PACOX]

Are you seriously arguing that having your head of state lie about petty shit like this is a good thing? Just trying to clarify.

When the world's confidence in America collapses at least we will still have our memes.

[Allybeboba]

Does that mean everyone should remove fake Time magazines covers?

Practically anyone can order a fake Time magazine cover and have their photo put on it.
http://magazineyourself.com

[GennGreymane]

When the world's confidence in America collapses at least we will still have our memes.

Goddam normies are ruining them so no we lost them too. We will have nothing left.

[33kamous3]

I wonder what the story behind that is? I mean how old is it, who made it and why, etc. I think we can be pretty confident that Trump didn't do it himself. Probably someone made it and gave it to him. It's a little strange that it's in several locations, and its also strange given that he's actually been on the cover of Time on several occasions.

My guess is that someone made it and sent it in or gave it to him, he remarked that he liked it and had it put on a wall, and someone put other copies in the other places, whoever is in charge of decorating those places.

I think it's one of those things that's not a big deal, but it is pretty funny and a little ironic given the whole "Fake News" thing.

[Lothar from accounting]

Does that mean everyone should remove fake Time magazines covers?

Maybe they should. At the very least an individual who so vehemently decries 'fake news' shouldn't be using (attempting to use, or allowing/encouraging subordinates to use) falsified news magazine covers to promote themselves or their business interests.

[Pendragon]

...on display at the company’s golf clubs

How is this fake news? He's not pushing any of those covers onto MSN channels and pretending they're real.

[TwistedSkull]

Ladies and gentlemen the potus...

[Zandalarian Paladin]

As far as I know, Donald Trump has been Time's person of the year in 2016.

http://time.com/time-person-of-the-y...-donald-trump/

So the issue is that he's had a photoshop montage with a custom Time's cover, right?

We're not making this anything else than it has to be, right? We won't go through the fallacy hole and pretend that Donald Trump was not Time's person of the year in 2016, right?

Good, good.

[33kamous3]

How is this fake news? He's not pushing any of those covers onto MSN channels and pretending they're real.

I feel like I'm explaining the joke here, but it's not fake news in the sense of the word that Trump uses, it's fake news in the most literal sense of the phrase. As in, an actual, physical, fake news magazine cover. Like if I printed up a facetious newspaper that had the headline "MAN BITES DOG" you could call that a fake newspaper.

Although you could make the argument about context: if the other framed things around it are "joke" or "tongue-in-cheek" mock-ups, then it's a joke, but if the other items in the assemblages are actual, authentic, commemorative artifacts, then it would be presented as "real."

I actually kind of doubt, even if Trump himself is aware of it, that he even knows or cares if it's not authentic.

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As far as I know, Donald Trump has been Time's person of the year in 2016.

http://time.com/time-person-of-the-y...-donald-trump/

So the issue is that he's had a photoshop montage with a custom Time's cover, right?

We're not making this anything else than it has to be, right? We won't go through the fallacy hole and pretend that Donald Trump was not Time's person of the year in 2016, right?

Good, good.

That's the other layer of irony. Actually it's my guess that the mock-up in question predates the 2016 thing, maybe as some sort of commemoration or anniversary of his TV show, and that nobody from the outside noticed it until now.

[cubby]

Does that mean everyone should remove fake Time magazines covers?

Practically anyone can order a fake Time magazine cover and have their photo put on it.
http://magazineyourself.com

And the Trumplaining begins. Sure is fun to watch you hand-wave away day after day and week after week of utterly deplorable behavior from our Cheeto-in-Chief (I know you love 'e(hi)m.

[Kujako]

It even made Cracked! Clearly this is news.


but really all it shows is that Trump is an insecure idiot... which is neither fake nor news.

[cubby]

As far as I know, Donald Trump has been Time's person of the year in 2016.

http://time.com/time-person-of-the-y...-donald-trump/

So the issue is that he's had a photoshop montage with a custom Time's cover, right?

We're not making this anything else than it has to be, right? We won't go through the fallacy hole and pretend that Donald Trump was not Time's person of the year in 2016, right?

Good, good.

If you're not understand the fake part of this, the ratings/approval need that Trump seems to never be able to either ignore or get enough of, well, you just haven't been paying attention.

It's literally fake news - it's false, depicting something that didn't happen. What's worse, he's the president (he won, remember? all those red states he keeps showing foreign leaders and cabinet members).

I guess the issue outside the falseness is that it's just so sad he needs this kind of ego boost, over and over again. Pathetic is another word.

[NYC17]

As far as I know, Donald Trump has been Time's person of the year in 2016.

http://time.com/time-person-of-the-y...-donald-trump/

So the issue is that he's had a photoshop montage with a custom Time's cover, right?

We're not making this anything else than it has to be, right? We won't go through the fallacy hole and pretend that Donald Trump was not Time's person of the year in 2016, right?

Good, good.

Next month in Time:

Man with fragile ego and decrier of fake news, who actually has a legitimate cover, uses fake cover of a legitimate news magazine to massage his ego even more. Enablers obfuscate and rejoice.

[Zandalarian Paladin]

That's the other layer of irony. Actually it's my guess that the mock-up in question predates the 2016 thing, maybe as some sort of commemoration or anniversary of his TV show, and that nobody from the outside noticed it until now.

I have to say that I wondered the same thing. I wouldn't be surprised - it's Trump's narcissistic style to picture himself bigger than he really is. The thing that makes me unsure of this is the part that he goes on about "Obama's healthcare", which is not that far away.

But seeing how he's handling it, I'd say he's not better.

If you're not understand the fake part of this, the ratings/approval need that Trump seems to never be able to either ignore or get enough of, well, you just haven't been paying attention.

It's literally fake news - it's false, depicting something that didn't happen. What's worse, he's the president (he won, remember? all those red states he keeps showing foreign leaders and cabinet members).

I guess the issue outside the falseness is that it's just so sad he needs this kind of ego boost, over and over again. Pathetic is another word.

The only fake part is the cover. He never had such a coverage from Time. He did make Time's front page in the past (twice, I think).

I don't disagree with the fact that it's just an ego boost (assuming he's the one who did/asked for this, since it's nowhere to be seen in your article).