About That TIME Magazine ‘Liar in Chief’ Cover That’s All Over Twitter…

Ken MeyerJun 11th, 2017, 5:53 pm

Contrary to what you might have seen on Twitter, it is highly unlikely that TIME Magazine went ahead and called President Trump the “Liar-in-Chief.”

If you’ve been perusing the interwebs this Sunday, then you might have noticed this image being circulated around.

Me- Time Magazine…who do you believe? Comey or Trump?

Time Magazine- pic.twitter.com/ZE4neRPFdR

— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) June 11, 2017

It would seem that the cover references the ongoing investigations about Trump potential connections to Russia, as well as the testimony from James Comey about the president’s tendency to spread lies.

Before we get ahead of ourselves, lets have a little chat about this picture, shall we?

First of all, the photoshop here is not particularly good compared to previous TIME covers, even if they have been critical towards Trump before:

TIME Magazine puts renaissance Russian architecture on the White House in what must be some kind of message?https://t.co/lfuLyS0Im0 pic.twitter.com/v5euohnRcg

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) May 19, 2017

New cover of @TIME: Trump’s War on Washington https://t.co/ooG5MLJCi8 pic.twitter.com/DlhB1zvfjr

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) March 9, 2017

More importantly though, some people on Twitter looked at TIME’s online cover vault, and they noted that the cover with Trump being overshadowed by Putin is nowhere to be found:

I have been told by someone at Time that this cover is a fake https://t.co/axz1gXikwq

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) June 11, 2017

It’s been posted by reputed US journalists & opinion leaders. But @boomlive_in is a very reliable factchecker so holding it back for now
I https://t.co/nW9ptVJtBt

— Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) June 11, 2017

Instead, it seems that the next cover story will focus on Trump International Hotel in Washington.