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In January, in a controversial speech at CIA headquarters, he boasted that he had “the all-time record in the history of Time magazine” for appearances on (genuine) covers. In June, the company asked Trump to remove a fake cover from display at his properties.
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Trump, 71, has a complicated relationship with Time. Time’s chief content officer, Alan Murray, put out a more strongly worded tweet, saying the president’s words were “amazing.
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Time does not comment on our choice until publication, which is December 6.” In the fashion of the times, just before 8.30pm ET, Time tweeted back: “The president is incorrect about how we choose Person of the Year. I said probably is no good and took a pass. “But I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. “Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year,” Trump wrote, a little before 6pm ET, from Florida where he is spending the Thanksgiving break at his Mar-a-Lago club. Trump tweeted his thoughts on Friday evening, after a day of golf with Tiger Woods and world No 1 Dustin Johnson and, in his words, talking to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey about “bringing peace to the mess that I inherited in the Middle East”. He added: “This president calls out the media when they’re dishonest, and that’s why the American people love him.” I don’t know who else can be the Time magazine person of the year other than our president, Donald Trump.” Lewandowski told Fox News: “The mainstream media has never wanted to give this president the credit that he’s deserved. On Saturday morning, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski dutifully returned fire, co-opting the skirmish with the venerable magazine into the president’s continuing war with the press.