One of the more bizarre stories that we've
seen from the Trump administration since they
took office emerged earlier this week when
it was revealed that Donald Trump has a fake
issue of Time magazine, a fake cover of Time
magazine hanging in at least four of his golf
club resorts.
A fake issue, that didn't ever exist.
It was never created by Time, it was never
published, never printed, never dreamt of
by the folks over at the Time organization.
Yet Donald Trump has it hanging prominently
in the dining areas of four of his resorts.
What does this fake cover say?
Well, it's got a great picture of Donald Trump
on it and it says, "Donald Trump, the Apprentice
is a television smash.
Trump is hitting on all fronts, even TV."
Wow, such great praise.
Unfortunately, it never came from Time.
Donald Trump, at this point, we don't know
who created these covers.
We don't know how Trump got his hands on them,
and we don't know why he decided to hang it
up without ever bothering to look and see
if it was real.
In fact, the date printed on the magazine
was not even a date that a magazine from Time
actually came out.
The closest one to that date actually featured
Kate Winslet on the cover.
Now, for a man who has made his entire presidency
about calling out fake news, he sure does
seem to fall for fake news quite frequently.
Probably more than the average American.
In fact, I don't know of too many people who
subscribe to the fake news outlets that actually
have them printed out and hanging in their
businesses like Donald Trump.
This is a man whose ego is so fragile that
he doesn't care if it was ever actually put
out by the magazine.
He saw it, somebody showed it to him, he loved
it, and he wanted it hung up.
Either that or the people who work for him
discovered it or created it and decided, "This
will make him happy because he's such a fragile
egomaniac.
Let's just put it up in the dining room anyway."
That's what's happening under Donald Trump.
That is the President of the United States.
Now, in the past Trump has even bragged about
how many times he has been on the cover of
Time magazine.
Time actually had to come out and say, "You're
actually wrong.
You were not on the cover that many times.
In fact, you were only on the cover before
you entered politics one time, and that was
back in the 1980s."
Furthermore, Trump has actually said that
he's been on the cover of Time magazine more
than anyone.
When, in fact, that is also not true.
Richard Nixon, actually, has been on the cover
far more than Trump.
I make that comparison because that's probably
the closest person, you know, who really captures
or embodies what Donald Trump himself is all
about.
The bottom line is this, Donald Trump fell
for fake news.
Whoever created this, whoever disseminated
it, good job.
You pulled a fast one on the president.
He honestly believes he was on the cover for
that, even though, I don't know, maybe he's
created a false memory of that where he does
remember sitting down for that picture.
Either way, when it comes to fake news, when
it comes to sharing fake news and legitimizing
fake news, nobody does it better than Donald
Trump.
