Rather, it’s that Person of the Year, once a portentous signifier of national and even international import, is now little more than a running joke. The real story here isn’t who’s telling the truth. Time does not comment on our choice until publication, which is December 6.” “Thanks anyway!” The magazine in turn called Trump a liar: “The President is incorrect. “I said probably is no good and took a pass,” the president ostensibly responded. 24, President Trump tweeted that Time called to say he would “PROBABLY” be their Person of the Year for 2017-but that the magazine would need an interview and a “major” photo shoot. The most recent dustup between the White House and the press has offered some unexpected fun-namely, an excuse to lay bare Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” tradition as the long-running piece of bunkum that it is.
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