Trump Tangles With Twitter Over TIME Magazine's "Man Of The Year"

Fake TIME Magazine cover Trump hung in his golf clubs

Friday evening, Donald Trump stirred the Twitter pot by announcing "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. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!"

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. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 24, 2017

Of all things, TIME Magazine trolled back saying that's not how it works:

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.

— TIME (@TIME) November 25, 2017

Of course, if you really want to know why a TIME Magazine cover is important to Trump, perhaps this is a clue:

And then the Twitterverse simply had to join in:

Bbc just called to say I was PROBABLY going to be named sports personality of the year but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!

— Andy Murray (@andy_murray) November 24, 2017

.@nytimes just called to say I was PROBABLY going to be named comedienne of the year but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway! @andy_murray

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) November 25, 2017

Hollywood just called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named the next James Bond but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) November 24, 2017

“Good Boy Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Dog of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway” pic.twitter.com/z4pDhvoJ23

— Vanessa Ramos (@thatRamosgirl) November 25, 2017

Mr. President, just to clarify things, I wanted to offer a few statistics. Number of times you were Person of the Year during the 7 years I was editor of Time: 0. Number of times you were on the cover: 0. Number of times you made the Time 100 influentials list: 0. Thanks anyway!

— Richard Stengel (@stengel) November 25, 2017

For the love of God will someone please get this man a coloring book. https://t.co/7nS1jlCDaU

— Greg Hogben (@MyDaughtersArmy) November 24, 2017

I don’t know who’ll be Time’s 2017 Person of the Year, but I must say it would be nice if Robert Mueller turns out to be Time’s 2018 Person of the Year.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 25, 2017

This really is one of your most breathtakingly tragic posts. Imagine if the actual, legitimately elected POTUS posted something like this.

— Mark Banker (@themarkbanker) November 25, 2017

It should be noted that a TIME Mag photo shoot gave us one of the great Trump GIFs pic.twitter.com/7KYMlSRl9v

— Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) November 24, 2017