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Time magazine has asked the Trump organisation to remove fake Time Magazine covers bearing his image that were on display at his golf clubs.
[...] The cover was reportedly on display at four other golf clubs owned by the US president.
The image, dated 1 March 2009, had never run in the magazine in any format, a Time spokeswoman said. The real March edition featured actor Kate Winslet.
"I can confirm that this is not a real Time cover," Kerri Chyka wrote to the Post. The paper said Time had asked the Trump organisation to remove the covers from display.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/28/time-magazinetrump-fake-covers-golf-clubs
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Do not cut switchbacks.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Thursday June 29 2017, @09:51PM (23 children)
I can't wait to see if he tweets anything about this. Personally, I'd love my own picture on a man of the year time magazine cover. I'd frame it and hang it. It's funny, come on people.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:01PM (11 children)
He was busy cyberbullying women this morning.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:03PM (9 children)
Source:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/880408582310776832 [twitter.com]
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/880410114456465411 [twitter.com]
(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:13PM (8 children)
A mere insult is not bullying, especially not when the other side engaged you in the first place.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:03PM (5 children)
Um, he's the president of the United States of America. He's got the world's biggest target painted squarely on his ass because he is the highest ranking public official in our (once) great nation. As such he will always be the subject of debate, discussion, criticisms, lampooning, parodying, satire and even effigy burning if someone is so moved. And he has to sit and take it or risk proving he is the fool we all know him to be because of freedom of speech and the press and all that. I am free to say that he is the worst president I have ever personally seen, including both Bushes and Clinton put together and doubled! It's UUUGGEE! Sorry couldn't help it. I am free to publish a paper stating the same and circulate it where legally permitted to, but I'll leave that to the big wigs who make that their career. They have better lawyers to protect themselves from presidential onslaught than I do. His reactions are telling as to what kind of a person he truly is, and it's worse than a 16 year old spoiled brat whining she didn't get chocolate cake at her big birthday bash. The insults he employs are childish even for 16 year olds let alone POTUSes. I really wish people would grow up, especially our 'leaders'
(Score: 4, Insightful) by unauthorized on Friday June 30 2017, @12:19AM (4 children)
Bullshit. Freedom of speech means you can say whatever the hell you want to say, the president has a right to it just as much as everyone else. Whether his actions are incongruous is another matter entirely and bringing it up is moving the goalposts.
You can have whatever opinions you please. I'm not here to attack or defend Trump, I'm here to call out the intellectually disingenuous practice of re-branding actions in an unreasonably sinister manner.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @03:31AM (3 children)
I agree with GP. The president should demonstrate dignity. Or is expecting the leader of a country to act in public in a dignified, polite manner merely my TDS speaking?
Next, somebody will point out some tin-pot dictator who makes an ass of himself in public regularly as if that could excuse it. Congratulations, your president has the character of a tin-pot dictator.
(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Friday June 30 2017, @03:39AM (2 children)
And that's moving the goalpost. How the president presents himself has no bearing over whether his actions could be construed as bullying.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @01:44PM
What. The. Fuck.
How somebody presents themselves has every bearing over whether his or her actions constitute bullying.
Are you sure you're not the one with TDS?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @02:27PM
The President's words can move people to kill.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:36PM
It is now. Especially on Twitter. And disagreement is harassment. #BlockBlockBlock
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @01:21AM
But he didn't say "bullying". He said "cyberbullying", a neologism whose meaning is still a little unclear. Among those able to use it with a straight face, mere insults are often considered a form of cyberbullying -- which is just one more reason the rest of us can't say "cyberbullying" with a straight face.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:07PM
Fake News:
CaitrionaPerry after meeting with realDonaldTrump [imgur.com]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by NewNic on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:39PM (8 children)
It's one thing to make your own fake Time Magazine cover and keep it in your own office or home.
Putting several copies on public display: that shows a level of narcissism that is not healthy.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:33PM
You spelt delusion wrong.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:55PM (3 children)
Putting several copies on public display: that shows a level of narcissism that is not healthy.
Borderline fraud considering he was effectively advertising his business with it.
Trademark infringement at the least.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @05:00AM (2 children)
Why do we let fucking massive retards have computers? They should be locked away in a gulag where they can't accidentally infect normal humans with their severe stupidity.
If possessing a fake magazine cover is a crime, then every person who has ever used a snapshot photo booth at a mall is guilty. If Trump was attempting to sell magazines with Time's branding on them, that would indeed be a trademark violation. But there are certainly no laws that say you can't draw your own and put it on your own wall.
Why do I have to explain this perfectly obvious concept to such brutal morons? How does someone so vastly idiotic even manage to make their way to this corner of the internet? It's supposed to be for reasonably intelligent people, not sub-human neanderthals.
(Score: 4, Informative) by gtomorrow on Friday June 30 2017, @06:36AM
Ok, AC...take a deep breath...count to ten...and let Uncle Grey explain it to you.
Although IANAL a private citizen can hang a fake magazine cover in his/her place of dwelling, no problem. I'm pretty sure that in the workplace, if you have something of that nature hanging in your office, away from the public, that's cool as well. But once you've got a fake magazine cover on display in the workplace where the public can see it, you're crossing a line. When you've got four of them prominently displayed in four different places of business, it's looking very much like standard decor and without prior consent, it's trademark infringement. You're implying that TIME Magazine endorses your fake cover.
Your example of "snapshot photo booth": if there is the choice of having a REAL magazine cover framing your face, you can be sure that the photo booth owners have paid a licensing fee/royalty to said magazine owner. Otherwise it's trademark infringement, plain and simple.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DutchUncle on Friday June 30 2017, @07:21PM
This isn't just photography, it's forgery. The fake magazine covers from the snapshot booths are typically fake "sports" or "beauty" or "personality" themed titles that don't exist in the real commercial world. Putting such a up in your den or cubicle is pretty clearly a joke. Falsifying a Time magazine cover (particularly considering that Trump has actually been on real Time covers over the years, well before this election cycle), and using it in a commercial establishment with the suggestion that it is real, is forging Time Inc's name on a document that they never produced.
You can jump to conclusions all you want, but you don't have to be an ass about it.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday June 30 2017, @12:04AM
The smart thing to do would be to have the TIME cover with Hillary on it instead. It could be Trump's "Dewey defeats Truman" moment and showcase his characteristically smartass sense of humor without coming off as too arrogant.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @12:49AM
Thing is, there's a real cover he could have used [time.com]. Or is the headline of the real cover not flattering enough for his ego?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday June 30 2017, @10:13PM
And "The Apprentice" didn't?
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by J053 on Friday June 30 2017, @12:33AM
https://www.fotojet.com/template/magazine/magazine-01/ [fotojet.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Friday June 30 2017, @04:12PM
Somebody sold these mainstream, until Time shut them down.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by shanen on Thursday June 29 2017, @09:53PM (19 children)
Eh? After several months the Soylent News website is suddenly visible again? So what's been going on over here?
As I said before, I think conventional journalism is dying the big death, and I hoped that SN might be the start of something better. Can't pretend to be clinging to that hope. Can't even keep the DNS working? (Of course, I still blame the financial model, still think I've got some better ideas, still have some money to put behind those ideas, BUT now lack the hope to share any of the above.)
(Okay, already. As the joke goes, details available upon polite and sincere request. Or maybe you should just dig around the archives? Not much change lately, though I'll probably make some modifications after I finish digesting A Public Betrayed, a very interesting book about the Japanese weeklies that says I need to modify my analysis of the eyeballs part of the problem.)
Now about that original topic... Not much to add. The obvious paradox of #PresidentTweety HATING the media except when he thinks he can milk their hard-earned reputation for his personal profit. When will he notice that he's destroying their reputation much more easily than they built it? Always trivially easy to increase entropy with a big enough lie.
#1 Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice{5} ≠ (Beer^4 | Speech) and your negative mods prove you are a narrow prick.
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:02PM (1 child)
I'm on SN every day and have not noticed a DNS problem. Are you sure you don't have a DNS problem?
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:12PM
Maybe shanen has an IPv6 problem.
Or maybe just a lie-node problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:22PM (7 children)
This sounds like an error code 18: the error occurred within 18 inches of the keyboard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:26PM (6 children)
That's funny, I don't have a keyboard.
PEBKAC problem? Nope, no chair either.
Update your shit insults, son.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:29PM (1 child)
Sounds like an error inside your tent under the bridge.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:36PM
LOL, I know right?!
There's a stain on the sidewalk here that I swear looks like the silhouette of an Imperial walker. The stain won't fade no matter how much I piss on it.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:31PM (2 children)
Well, there's your problem, kid.
Take this quarter and go get yourself a real computer.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday June 30 2017, @12:23AM (1 child)
give him a penny and he can get a real computer from a gumball machine.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday June 30 2017, @01:02PM
Very true.
-- hendrik
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @03:12AM
User error. Replace user and activate any input to continue.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:09PM
SoylentNews is not responsible for paying your internet bills.
(Score: 5, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:10PM (6 children)
We've been here and serving up hundreds of thousands of pages per day. Nothing wrong with our DNS. Either your DNS provider is glitchy or someone is actively interfering with resolution of our domain like your government or employer.
I'd suggest setting up your own recursive name server if you continue having problems because the one you're using is apparently not trustworthy.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday June 30 2017, @06:54AM (1 child)
I once named the hostname of my router to a website out of curiosity and forgot. Took me several months to figure out why I was opening my router webpage every time I visited that website.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday June 30 2017, @01:07PM
A fully qualified domain names ends in a period (like this: "https://soylentnews.org." instead of "https://soylentnews.org"). Stick the period on and you shouldn't have trouble getting captured by a local host name.
(Score: 1) by shanen on Friday June 30 2017, @10:14PM (3 children)
My ISP is one of the largest fiber optic ISPs in the country. It's actually a kind of resale operation for fiber from the largest ISP, who also owns more backbone than anyone else. There are actually a number of such quasi-subsidiaries for marketing purposes, though mine is one of the largest.
This loss of connectivity to Soylent News actually happened the first time a couple of months ago. During that outage I checked various possibilities. I determined that using a VPN with an American IP address would display the Soylent News webpages, but there were still problems when I logged in via that method. Because I suspected DNS problems, I also did some direct testing with the IP address, which also connected but caused different problems. Of course nslookup failed, but I used the domain registration information to get the IP address. That was enough to dissuade me from Tor-based experiments. If I had been strongly motivated or encouraged to diagnose the problem, I could have used several alternative wireless routings, too.
Since reading SN is such a low priority for me, I just ignored its absence and didn't waste any time tweaking my settings. For examples, I did not touch the hosts file or use alternative DNS servers. After a couple of days (weeks?) SN suddenly came back. I do not believe I had done anything to cut the access, and I am quite certain I did nothing to restore it. I reported the problems and received no thanks.
After a few weeks (months?) of access, SN disappeared again. That went on for a long time. Again, I did nothing to my settings. No other websites have had access problems that seem to correspond to or relate to the SN problem.
I suppose I could defend my technical chops, but why bother? It just saddens me to watch you fail. Slight sadness.
What should bother you [the vocal "advocates" or "defenders" of SN's "honor"] is that no one else notices your connectivity problems. Or perhaps no one else cares enough to make the effort to call them to your attention?
So why didn't I erase the bookmark the first time SN seemed to die? Just stupid optimism, I guess. Journalism is collapsing and I want to hope there are solutions. However, I think you have finally convinced me SN will make NO constructive contributions.
A little bit of hope died, but "fortunately" I never developed much regard for SN. Pompous asinine cliques of self-righteous fools never amount to much.
P.S. When I first tried to Submit this comment, it produced a remarkable obscure error. Excuse me for not caring.
#1 Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice{5} ≠ (Beer^4 | Speech) and your negative mods prove you are a narrow prick.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 30 2017, @10:35PM (1 child)
Ahh, I understand now. You're complaining about a bug that you failed to even try to diagnose that was not on our end and talking shit about the site in the same breath. That being the case, I have a negative amount of fucks to give.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by shanen on Saturday July 01 2017, @12:22AM
You're a little late. I already deleted the SN bookmark, though I hadn't closed this tab yet.
You're right about one thing. We don't know where the problem is, though I think I've done a better job of proving it isn't on my end than you've done in proving it isn't on yours. That leaves anywhere in between, though my only evidence is the negative lack of problem with any other websites. I do have to assess your competence by your posts and say I still think the problems are probably at the SN end. Not just the technical problems. The lack of significance.
As for your parting comment. I don't think you've ever had a fuck in your life. More sadness. Give my very best regards to your mom upstairs.
#1 Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice{5} ≠ (Beer^4 | Speech) and your negative mods prove you are a narrow prick.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 01 2017, @12:23AM
Your strong demotivation really comes through in your Slashdot comment history [slashdot.org]. I hope you can find an engaging site to "invest" your time in that doesn't rot before you do.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @02:13AM
still think I've got some better ideas
No you don't. It's just more whiny troll bullshit. Leave that shit over there at Slashdot* and leave us alone unless you have something constructive to say.
*Read his comments and journals. It will all become clear that he is nothing but a petulant brat.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Fluffeh on Thursday June 29 2017, @09:53PM (22 children)
The irony doesn't get too much more iron filled than this really.
The entertaining and spot on rant by the journalist the other day at the press briefing, this story about pots and kettles calling each other black. It would only get funnier if somehow someone started to question Trumps country of birth...
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:14PM (2 children)
would be born in Doucheland, right? :)
(Score: 4, Funny) by boxfetish on Friday June 30 2017, @12:58AM
Sprechen sie Douche?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @02:38AM
His proctologist uses pitons.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:23PM (10 children)
The whole "fake news" thing he adopted in the first place was in discussion because a huge number of fabulatory publications, with no publication history, appeared from nowhere to support his campaign, then disappear into the Balkan night after the election.
He then adopted the term to describe factual reporting that he didn't like because, his voters were stupid idiots who'd buy it.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:33PM (8 children)
Shitheel Trump got elected because a significant number of people were utterly disgusted with the Clintonista style of politics, rampant illegal immigration, and bi-coastal elitist snobbery. They didn't vote for Agent Orange, they voted against the establishment and (gasp!) in their own interests.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by e_armadillo on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:41PM (3 children)
they voted against the establishment and (gasp!) in their own interests.
Agree with the first, but am pretty sure the second will turn out to be more correctly "against" . . . but that, only time will really tell.
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @01:59AM (2 children)
It's already been proven that they voted against their own best interests. Trump is getting us into needless foreign conflicts just as so many warmongers before him have done, has appointed countless crony capitalist scumbags, supports the intelligence community which continually violates the Constitution, and so on. He revealed himself as a corrupt authoritarian almost instantaneously.
(Score: 2) by lx on Friday June 30 2017, @06:02AM (1 child)
supports the intelligence community
He called them a bunch of Nazis. That's an odd way to show your support.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday June 30 2017, @06:23PM
You're acting like any of the words that fall out of his mouth have meaning. Look at what he *does.*
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 5, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Friday June 30 2017, @02:02AM (3 children)
what middle america calls 'elitism' the rest of us call EDUCATION and intelligence.
I know, its a lot for the flyovers to take. they like to make fun of 'college boys'.
sigh. the anti-intellectualism is what is killing this country. and sadly, middle america has had too much say in what goes on. the rest of us are now suffering due to their inability to think and see thru the BS.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @07:00AM (2 children)
And the 'rest of you' took education paid for by taxes levied equally on on middle america, and reached the positions of power to disparage the middle america instead of putting effort in educating them. Tell me, how many new public schools have been opened by dems? How has the standard of those schools improved? How does tying the funding of schools to lefty policies increase value of a school? Answer to all three: poorly. If you take a book and beat the uneducated with it, that's not "EDUCATION and intelligence" that's elitism.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday June 30 2017, @03:01PM
And the 'rest of you' took education paid for by taxes levied equally on on middle america
And those same funds are available in middle america. So why does education suck there? I wonder if it has something to do with the folks elected in those areas govern with those funds?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @07:39PM
Are you talking about leftist policies like teaching science instead of religion in a science class?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @05:04AM
Meanwhile, we now have not one but two CNN people on tape admitting the entire Russia scandal is built on jack shit and there to give them ratings. Of course, we find this out right after 3 senior reporters get fired for embarrassing the company into retracting yet another fake story built on anonymous sources. Rumor mill is saying AT&T is going to ax the chief before they buy the company.
It's amazing you have nerve to call anyone else stupid when you're clearly the most ignorant person in the room.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:44PM (5 children)
You know that, had he been born after 1983, he would have been a British Citizen, right? In fact, I think he may still be eligible to apply to become a British Citizen.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:20PM (2 children)
Hah. As if we'd let a ridiculously coiffed, weirdly-off-yellow haired buffoon who can barely string together a coherent sentence anywhere near a position of power.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2, Touché) by c0lo on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:33PM (1 child)
I see... so, the only reason you gave Boris Johnson a place was because he could string together a coherent sentence? (if so, your standards are quite a bit wonky :grin: )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday June 30 2017, @02:26AM
only coherent to Grammar-schooled Latin and Greek scholars?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @12:37AM
I think you mean planet of birth.
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Friday June 30 2017, @08:17PM
Even made more funny by the thought that if they had actually banned him as they were threatening to do during the election race, he could have used that mechanism to force them to accept him!
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday June 30 2017, @12:18AM
"Why don't you then?" -- Monty Python, "The Meaning of Life"
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday June 30 2017, @04:16PM
There are plenty of ways it could get funnier... the man has a closet packed floor to ceiling with skeletons, the only thing saving his public image is the fact that people expected so little of him in the first place that each new revelation isn't really a letdown but rather a confirmation of what was already well known. He has nowhere to fall, hit rock bottom long ago and has been digging for decades.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by SpockLogic on Thursday June 29 2017, @09:55PM (7 children)
Fake Time cover, Fake President.
Real malignant narcissist and a continuing embarrassment to the USA.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 3, Touché) by krishnoid on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:38PM
Especially when he could use the real cover [time.com].
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:47PM (5 children)
> Fake President
I wish people would stop saying that.
There's no point being in denial, the guy did win ... against common sense, popular vote, sanity, probity, and any illusion that shame mattered ... but he won.
"Fake president" is a worthless attack which allows his people to dismiss legitimate critics.
Call him terrible, dangerous, incompetent, a liar, impeach-bait, a distraction, the Destroyer of Ciivilized Discourse and Rules ... but don't call him fake.
He's real. He's in power. People need to fight a real threat as his minions dismantle anything that sits in the way of their profits.
Don't call him fake. You don't fight "fake" the way you should fight someone trying to usurp the Worst President title from W...
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday June 30 2017, @12:24AM
> Fake President
I wish people would stop saying that.
He's a fake, president.
Better?
(Score: 2) by BK on Friday June 30 2017, @01:00AM (2 children)
No matter how much I dislike them, I struggle to call any president who is re-elected 'worst'. I'd pick J. Buchanan or A. Johnson as worst for sure. Perspective people!
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday June 30 2017, @02:05AM
I'd pick J. Buchanan or A. Johnson as worst for sure.
Hard to say one way or the other. I can't speak for you of course, but I wasn't there.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 30 2017, @06:01AM
I have to get back to my grandfathers' young days to find a president ranked worse than W in this dedicated wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
So, while I'd agree that "worst president ever" could be an exaggeration (though it might be true from an international policies standpoint), and "worst president since the rise of Hitler" is technically correct but flamebait, how about "Clearly the worst since the death of Marie Curie, the production of the CRT TV set, the invention of electron microscopy, FM, impact sprinklers, sodium thiopental, and the birth of Gagarin, Goodall, Cernan, Moog and Sagan" (all that in 1933).
The door is open for the current guy to try to take the title, but the D.C. he inherited was nowhere near the state it was in when Clinton left it for W, making it harder to fall hard from a much lower point.
Being (re-)elected president has lost all meaning when it comes to the actual value of a person.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Friday June 30 2017, @01:47AM
Yea...the proper assessment is that, unfortunately he is in fact a "real" President...he's just not really presidential.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:39PM (2 children)
I just posted this in my journal [soylentnews.org] this morning. If this was already in the queue I didn't see it. Not a submission I know but I generally refrain from stuff like that. Unless I can figure out a sufficiently clever way to be a shithead in the summary.
Also this is private property (murika) and Trump has -12 shame. Only way they're coming down is if someone rips it down. But if the people who have to deal with Mar-A-Logo (god I hate that name) and Trump's overhead every time he's there haven't did that and other things yet. Can't see it happening. All his members are spineless weasels anyway and appreciate the access to Trump over a dumb poster.
By the way this quote says a lot about things and stuff and concepts of alike nature:
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday June 30 2017, @06:15PM (1 child)
Does spelling it correctly help any? *Mar-a-Lago
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Friday June 30 2017, @10:09PM
Yeah I figured I botched it somewhere, but now that you've corrected me I can no longer imagine him pulling up the gold tile to melt and replacing it with Coke ads :(
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:58PM (6 children)
It's not like he hasn't actually been on the cover of Time for real before. Like back on January 16, 1989 [time.com]. I see that Politifact has him lying 69% of the time [politifact.com], but this is beyond ridiculous.
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @01:01AM (1 child)
People make fake movie and magazine (including Time) covers all the time. There's even contests for them, sometimes hosted by the media companies themselves. Many people create fake posters for fun, art practice, or for prizes. Others also do it as goal setting. You're supposed to envision your goals and create imagery you can target to help achieve those goals. It's completely possible that these covers were put up as a target to achieve and not as an ad to deceive people.
The guy is a bad president, but that doesn't give everyone else an excuse to be idiots too. I'm sure there are other fake posters hanging in public and no one is complaining about those. Play fair or shut up since you're only making your side look worse by cherry picking the few instances you don't like while ignoring everyone else who does the exact same things. Things recommended by tons of self-help books and which has a very large online fan base. Some of the fake movie posters are even better than the entire real movies.
I hope the next generations aren't as whiny as the current generations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @03:07AM
Don't just look at the framed fake TIME covers at a few of his properties. Put it in context. Look for a pattern of behavior.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by wisnoskij on Friday June 30 2017, @01:10AM (3 children)
It is not like he has any input in decorating his thousands of businesses. Someone just googled Trump magazine cover and printed off some of the returned results.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by RedBear on Friday June 30 2017, @07:24AM (1 child)
Really? You think someone unrelated to Trump's businesses took the time to manufacture a high-resolution fake Donald Trump Time magazine cover and post it online, and then somebody at a Trump business just stumbled upon it in an image search and printed it out, and then that same fake magazine cover magically propagated to other Trump businesses without Trump being any the wiser?
Seriously?
Trump has spent his entire life very loudly and very publicly self-promoting himself like a used car salesman. I personally heard him talking about self-promotion on one of his hundreds of Fox News call-ins. He admitted in court that he pretended to be a "publicist" named John Miller (aka John Barron, yeah, just like his youngest son) so that he could call people up and tell them how great that Donald Trump guy is. It would be irrational to believe that he didn't have everything to do with originating the fake Time cover and ordering it to be displayed prominently at his businesses.
¯\_ʕ◔.◔ʔ_/¯ LOL. I dunno. I'm just a bear.
... Peace out. Got bear stuff to do. 彡ʕ⌐■.■ʔ
(Score: 2) by wisnoskij on Friday June 30 2017, @12:27PM
If you Google it, you will see there are dozens upon dozens of Trump Time Magazine covers. I assume most of them are fake. So yes, that is what happened. Someone associated with Trump directly would of known which covers were real.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @07:31AM
(Score: 4, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Friday June 30 2017, @03:16AM (2 children)
Those are my private golf clubs. What I put on the walls is between me and my wonderful members, the members of my clubs. I've been on a lot, a lot of Time covers. The most. So now Time wants interior decorating privileges? I'll tell you, I'm not married to Time. Time doesn't have a veto on my décor. They want me to take down the fake covers. That's all of them. They're all fake. Because Time is FAKE media. But I'm the real owner of those clubs. And a lot more. Folks, if I want to put up pictures of Clare Boothe Luce in the sack with Joe Kennedy, I will. Believe me, they screwed like rabbits (Henry was a cuck). I'll put them up. On my walls. MINE! 🇺🇸 #TrumpGolfLinks [twitter.com]
(Score: 2) by jimtheowl on Friday June 30 2017, @07:05AM (1 child)
To me you are just poison in the well, and I'll just say farewell.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday June 30 2017, @01:26PM
He is trying to be funny. And when he started doing this, he was. But the parody is so good and so frequent they are getting as to be as tedious as the real Donald Trump's tweets.
-- hendrik