Time magazine is still in business, long after its importance has ebbed.
Today, Time had the audacity to name Donald Trump their Person of the Year. This despite 34 felony convictions, stunning other court losses that involved hundreds of millions in judgements. He was found guilty of sexual abuse and the judge labeled him a rapist. He tried to overturn the 2020 election. He’s belittling, vulgar, coarse, and unread. He’s planning mass deportations, internment camps, and a full ban on abortion.
But Time thinks all of that is important enough to make him Person of the Year. I do hope all the celebrities who walk the red carpet for the Time 100 remember this next spring. By then, all of these things should be in motion, with Trump causing great strife and misery for a huge part of the American population.
It’s not like Time’s Man of the Year covers weren’t always in question. In 1938 the designee was Adolf Hitler. They described him as “the newsmaker who most influenced world events for better or worse,” pretty much the same rationale they’ve made now.
It’s a long ‘time’ since Time mattered anyway, so we won’t get too upset. But as Trump and his unelected co-conspirators like Elon Musk attack ‘mainstream media,’ you see the Marc Benoiff-owned magazine fighting to stay in the game. With this endorsement, they’ve made themselves irrelevant. This is just plain old sucking up.
I won’t link to this insulting turn of events.
