Trump tweets he 'took a pass' at being named TIME's person of the year
Story highlights
- Trump was named the magazine's 2016 person of the year
- The magazine said Trump was "incorrect" about their process
West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President
Donald Trump tweeted Friday that he turned down a potential offer to be
TIME Magazine's coveted "Person of the Year" after, Trump says, the
magazine told him he would "probably" be given the honors.
"Time
Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named "Man
(Person) of the Year" like last year, but I would have to agree to an
interview and a major photo shoot," Trump tweeted from his Mar-a-Lago
club in Palm Beach, Florida, where is spending his Thanksgiving holiday.
"I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!" Trump wrote.
The magazine issued a statement disputing the President's account.
"The
President is incorrect about how we choose Person of the Year. TIME
does not comment on our choice until publication, which is December 6," a
spokeswoman told CNN.
In
2015, for example, the magazine selected German Chancellor Angela
Merkel, who was neither interviewed nor photographed for the issue.
Instead, she was represented on the cover by a painting.
Time Inc.'s chief content officer, Alan Murray, later said the President's tweet didn't have "a speck of truth."
"Amazing.
Not a speck of truth here—Trump tweets he 'took a pass' at being named
TIME's person of the year," Murray tweeted, along with an article about
the incident.
The President's tweet came after a day of talking to world leaders and playing golf with Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson.
Trump has long been obsessed with being on the cover of TIME and other news magazines, even making fake covers to hang in some of his properties.
Last
summer, TIME asked for the fake magazines to be removed after reports
surfaced that at least five of Trump's golf clubs featured the fakes
bearing his photo.
The President
was named TIME's "person of the year" in 2016, following his victory
over Hillary Clinton. It would have been unlikely he would have been
named a second year in a row, and unusual for him to turn it down.
In 2015, he predicted TIME would never name him person of the year.
"I told you @TIME Magazine
would never pick me as person of the year despite being the big favorite
They picked person who is ruining Germany," he tweeted on December 9,
2015.
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