Celebrities and Pro Athletes Rally to Mock Trump’s Person of the Year Tweet

If in the event you were still recovering from a post-Thanksgiving tryptophan-induced coma yesterday, you may have missed President Donald Trump‘s odd and juvenile boast on Twitter in which he claimed he was “PROBABLY going to be named” Time Magazine‘s person of the year, but declined an interview and “major photo shoot.”

Since then, Time Magazine and the magazine’s Chief Content Officer Alan Murray shot down Trump’s claim and started a new battle in the White House’s war on media which saw the usual suspects take the usual sides.

But something unique also happened… there appears to have been something of a harmonic convergence of professional athletes and celebrity “activists” who found Trump’s boastful tweet so inspirational that they crafted their own hyperbolic and braggadocious tweets designed to point and laugh at President Trump’s ham-fisted attempt to take credit for an honor to which he had not been bestowed.

For clarity sake, Trump’s initial tweet read:

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

Then Time’s Chief Content Officer Alan Murray’s rebuttal:

Amazing. Not a speck of truth here—Trump tweets he ‘took a pass’ at being named TIME’s person of the year https://t.co/D6SJgyTpcY

— Alan Murray (@alansmurray) November 25, 2017

British Tennis player and former Wimbledon champ Andy Murray was among the first to take notice, which this sardonic salvo:

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

Then, actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus followed suit with her own witticism:

.@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

Actor Mark Hamill got into the act:

Time Magazine called to say that I was DEFINITELY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year” but I would have to agree to leak major #Ep8 spoilers. I said “no problem”, but then they told me you turned it down and now I don’t want it anymore. Thanks anyway! https://t.co/0tPGr1cNEM

— @HamillHimself (@HamillHimself) November 25, 2017

As did NY Mets Pitcher Noah Syndegard:

Sports Illustrated called and said I was probably going to be Sportsman of the Year, but it was going to take a long photo shoot and interview. I’m not proud of my recent perm and have a interpretive dance class at the interview time so I turned it down! No Thanks SI!!

— Noah Syndergaard (@Noahsyndergaard) November 25, 2017

And Daily Show founder Lizz Winstead:

Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be on the cover this year but I would have to agree to a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!

— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) November 25, 2017