Time asks president to remove fake cover from his resorts
TIME magazine has asked the Trump Organisation to remove a framed front cover featuring Donald Trump from several of its golf resorts after it was proven to be fake.
The cover, showing a presidential and steely eyed Mr Trump with his arms folded, was hung on the walls of Trump courses in the US, Ireland and Scotland.
Dated March 1 2009, the cover reads “Donald Trump: The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!”, with another headline stating: “Trump is hitting on all fronts ... even TV!” However, The Washington Post established that there was no March 1 2009 issue of Time and Mr Trump did not feature on the cover at any time in 2009. The issue dated March 2 2009 featured Kate Winslet following her Oscars success.
Time confirmed that the cover was a fake and stated it had requested the Trump Organisation stops using it.
The fake was hung in two prominent positions at Mr Trump’s golf resort in Doral, Florida, and in the members’ dining room at the Trump National Golf Club near Washington DC – the course where a plaque was unveiled setting out the bloody details of a Civil War battle apparently fought on the spot. Historians say there was no battle.
The fake also reportedly hangs at his exclusive Mar-a-lago resort in Palm Beach and had previously been on the wall at his club in Doonbeg, western Ireland. Employees at the Trump Turnberry course said it had been hung at the resort’s The Duel in the Sun pub.
Mr Trump was criticised for a speech in January at the solemn setting of the CIA memorial wall, in which he lambasted the media and boasted that he held the record for the number of Time magazine covers, claiming he had been on the cover 15 times in a year.
Time later clarified that the president had been on 11 covers in total at the time, while former president Richard Nixon had graced it 55 times.