Time magazine wants Donald Trump’s fake covers taken down – MarketWatch

Talk about fake news.

Time magazine has asked the Trump Organization to remove copies of a fake magazine cover featuring Donald Trump from its golf clubs walls.

The request came Tuesday after a Washington Post report found framed copies of Trump on the cover of Time displayed in at least five of Trumps clubs. The magazine cover, dated March 1, 2009, features the headline: Donald Trump: The Apprentice is a television smash!

However, there was no Time magazine published on March 1, 2009. Nor was Trump ever on the cover that year. And there are a number of design inaccuracies. I can confirm that this is not a real TIME cover, Time spokeswoman Kerri Chyka told the Post.

Just last year, Trump boasted about his Time magazine cover appearances. I think I was on the cover of Time magazine twice in my life and like six times in the last number of months, he said in July 2016. Perhaps he was counting the fake one before launching his presidential bid in 2015, Trump had only been on the cover once before, in 1989, according to Time.

Its not known who made the fake cover, but anyone with decent Photoshop skills could pull it off. There are also a number of websites that let users upload their own photos to make a mock magazine cover, usually to be used as gag gifts or to tout childrens athletic achievements.

Sports Illustrated, which also falls under the Time Inc. TIME, +0.00% umbrella, responded to the odd development with a wink Tuesday:

Fellow faux cover boy Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) also chimed in:

In real news, Trump could soon be on friendlier terms with Time. National Enquirer owner David Pecker, a longtime friend of Trumps, is considering buying the struggling publisher, according to a new report by The New Yorker.

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