# Time magazine pranks Trump! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 8, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241 "2016-12-08T23:25:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/1 "2016-12-08T23:25:55Z")
Okay, the comment over in the POTY thread attracted no attention, so I’ll try again. A friend sent me a (rare) rushed ping to look at the POTY/Trump cover of Time Magazine, so I did. OMFG is all I can say. Them’s some brass balls. [Look for yourself](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/12/07/12/3B2376AF00000578-0-image-a-1_1481114186697.jpg); you’ll see it. It’s not a small, subtle detail. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/2 "2016-12-08T23:36:46Z")
Is it that the opulent chair is going to seed or the “Divide States of America”? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/3 "2016-12-08T23:37:14Z")
Don’t make us guess. Just say what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/4 "2016-12-08T23:37:35Z")
I think I know what it is. But I don’t want to say in case you want more guesses before it is solved. And I don’t know how to do a spoiler box. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/5 "2016-12-08T23:38:43Z")
It has to do with the TIME lettering, right? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/6 "2016-12-08T23:42:45Z")
Before I looked at the pic, I was expecting that they’d done something to make his hands look small, but that’s not it. Is it maybe that his forehead appears to be bleeding? ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/7 "2016-12-08T23:43:57Z")
The M makes a little ^^ pair of horns or cat ears or something ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/8 "2016-12-08T23:43:58Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Okay, the comment over in the POTY thread attracted no attention, so I’ll try again. A friend sent me a (rare) rushed ping to look at the POTY/Trump cover of Time Magazine, so I did. > > OMFG is all I can say. Them’s some brass balls. > > [Look for yourself](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/12/07/12/3B2376AF00000578-0-image-a-1_1481114186697.jpg); you’ll see it. It’s not a small, subtle detail. How about a spoiler box for those of who don’t want to figure it. It doesn’t have to be a big ol’ secret ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/9 "2016-12-08T23:45:04Z")
Look at the way they have positioned the “M” over his head. Looks like horns. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/10 "2016-12-08T23:46:21Z")
Ok. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/11 "2016-12-08T23:48:08Z")
But that’s just my guess…I could be totally wrong. Maybe it’s a double party hat, I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/12 "2016-12-08T23:56:58Z")
I doubt they meant it. Check this: [http://time.com/3614128/person-of-the-year-covers/](http://time.com/3614128/person-of-the-year-covers/) Same could be said about Ben Bernanke, Putin, Pope John Paul, Bill Clinton, King Faisal. It’s just a feature of having an “M” in the title, and placing a person’s head more or less centrally. In fact several of those I’ve listed look far, far more like devils horns because the face is placed over the “M”, leaving just a little “^^” over the face, which looks even more devil-like. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/13 "2016-12-09T00:35:30Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > I doubt they meant it. Check this: > > [http://time.com/3614128/person-of-the-year-covers/](http://time.com/3614128/person-of-the-year-covers/) > > Same could be said about Ben Bernanke, Putin, Pope John Paul, Bill Clinton, King Faisal. > > It’s just a feature of having an “M” in the title, and placing a person’s head more or less centrally. In fact several of those I’ve listed look far, far more like devils horns because the face is placed over the “M”, leaving just a little “^^” over the face, which looks even more devil-like. Bernanke’s is the worst! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/14 "2016-12-09T00:48:46Z")
I find it far more interesting that he’s in a chair he normally wouldn’t be caught dead in. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/15 "2016-12-09T00:49:46Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Okay, the comment over in the POTY thread attracted no attention, so I’ll try again. A friend sent me a (rare) rushed ping to look at the POTY/Trump cover of Time Magazine, so I did. > > OMFG is all I can say. Them’s some brass balls. > > [Look for yourself](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/12/07/12/3B2376AF00000578-0-image-a-1_1481114186697.jpg); you’ll see it. It’s not a small, subtle detail. If it’s that you think the M looks like horns, two people had already mentioned it in the other thread before you did. So why you feel you have to be so secretive about it, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/16 "2016-12-09T00:56:30Z")
Bono is the devil. [https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/time-person-of-the-year-79.jpg?quality=85&w=422](https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/time-person-of-the-year-79.jpg?quality=85&w=422) So are the two Popes. Does Time have something against Popes? ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/17 "2016-12-09T01:02:02Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > Bono is the devil. Et tu, Bono? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/18 "2016-12-09T01:05:23Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > Look at the way they have positioned the “M” over his head. Looks like horns. That’s it. Applause from a very experienced graphic designer. No way it was accidental; but done so well there’s complete deniability. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/19 "2016-12-09T01:06:40Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > If it’s that you think the M looks like horns, two people had already mentioned it in the other thread before you did. So why you feel you have to be so secretive about it, I don’t know. I didn’t see the comments. A friend well outside the Dope orbit pointed it out to me. Wasn’t trying to be secretive, I just think things like this are more fun if each person finds it on their own. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241/20 "2016-12-09T01:27:04Z")
It’s the bunny ears on his head? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-magazine-pranks-trump/774241.md?page=2)