Donald Trump has been crowned TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year, beating off competition from Nigel Farage, Mark Zuckerberg and Tayyip Erdogan among others.
Previous POTY alumni include, in no particular order: Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Queen Elizabeth II.
According to TIME, the POTY is awarded to “the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.”
Trump has certainly affected the news in a big and mixed way for huge amounts of people as he won the election and became President-elect of the United States.
In TIME’s explanation of their choice, they wrote:
“For those who believe [Trump’s triumph] is all for the better, Trump’s victory represents a long-overdue rebuke to an entrenched and arrogant governing class; for those who see it as for the worse, the destruction extends to cherished norms of civility and discourse, a politics poisoned by vile streams of racism, sexism, nativism.”
But on the cover of the magazine, many are pointing out the same thing about Trump’s picture and the placement of the TIME logo.
Kudos to the designer who made the "M" look like devil horns. We will send you care packages after Trump throws you in prison. pic.twitter.com/jsqKxC8IOq
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) December 7, 2016
https://twitter.com/EmmaQuinlan/status/806523113949331457
Donald Trump may have won Person of the Year, but Time wins Magazine of the Year for using the "M" to give him devil horns. pic.twitter.com/RGHb9jtNjY
— Jeremy McLellan (@JeremyMcLellan) December 7, 2016
From the keeping it classy files…First @TIME tells HRC voters not to pay their taxes and then they give Donald Trump devil horns. pic.twitter.com/GDiHFdvLU8
— Mark Herrmann (@mark_herrmann) December 7, 2016
https://twitter.com/JohnRiversX4/status/806594322128928768
The Trump TIME cover also seems to be another 'Devil's horns' cover.
(look at the M, Trump's horns seem way bigger, of course) pic.twitter.com/lIcA9kpOVK— Shivam (@imrozed) December 7, 2016
You can't tell me no one at TIME noticed that the M directly above Trump's head on the magazine cover looks like he has devil horns
— Mark Quiñones (@markymarkqw) December 7, 2016
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