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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday June 29 2017, @09:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the photoshop-this dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by unauthorized on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:13PM (8 children)

    by unauthorized (3776) on Thursday June 29 2017, @10:13PM (#533127)

    A mere insult is not bullying, especially not when the other side engaged you in the first place.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:03PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:03PM (#533156)

    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)

      by unauthorized (3776) on Friday June 30 2017, @12:19AM (#533186)

      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.

      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)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @03:31AM (#533242)

        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)

          by unauthorized (3776) on Friday June 30 2017, @03:39AM (#533250)

          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

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @01:44PM (#533422)

            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

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @02:27PM (#533454)

            The President's words can move people to kill.

  • (Score: 2) by chromas on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:36PM

    by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 29 2017, @11:36PM (#533168) Journal

    It is now. Especially on Twitter. And disagreement is harassment. #BlockBlockBlock

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @01:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @01:21AM (#533210)

    A mere insult is not bullying

    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.