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TAKE IT FROM Thor: President Trump’s tale of rejecting Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” honor is pure myth.
Mets fireballer Noah Syndergaard fired a Twitter thunderbolt Saturday at the tweeter-in-chief over Trump’s bogus claim that he refused the magazine’s prestigious annual award.
Trump tweeted that he was “PROBABLY” going to win, but turned Time down flat because he couldn’t be bothered with the accompanying interview and photo shoot.
Social media All-Star Syndergaard, tongue firmly in cheek, then recounted his own brush with media greatness for his 983,000 followers.
“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,” Syndergaard tweeted Saturday morning.
“I'm not proud of my recent perm and have an interpretive dance class at the interview time so I turned it down. No Thanks SI!!”
The hard-throwing right-hander’s Trump-trolling remarks were retweeted 24,000 times. Time magazine itself later said Trump was misinformed about the selection process and this year’s winner would be announced on Dec. 6.
“Time does not comment on our choice until publication,” said the tweet from the magazine.
Outspoken tennis champ Andy Murray joined the party, serving up some fun at Trump’s expense from across the pond over the tweet.
“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,” he tweeted.
“I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!”
And “Veep” star Julia LouisDreyfus — whose HBO character Selina Meyer lands in the White House — cited Murray’s jibe in putting her own spin on the Trump tweet.
“@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,” she tweeted.
This wasn’t Syndergaard’s first tweet spanking of Trump.
He zapped the President two months ago over change issue.
“U.S. pulls out of Paris Climate Accord,” he tweeted in September. “Then hit by 4 Hurricanes in 6 weeks. Global Warming Karma? #wakeup.”
Trump’s strange, self-promotional tweet came in between his Twitter appeal for Small Business Saturday and a call for the Mexican border wall prompted by an Egyptian terror attack that killed 305 people.
He did not respond to the mocking tweets that appeared in the wake of his un-Timely message.
A Syndergaard cyberfan suggested the pitcher was spurned for another famous Queens baseball figure: “I heard they called Mr. Met instead.”
“Lies !!!! ” shot back Syndergaard, who’s also involved in a long-running online “feud” with the team mascot. the climate