The devil in the detail: Time magazine explains Donald Trump cover while social media lights up over his red ‘horns’
Editor said the cover recognises the person who “for better or for worse … has done the most to influence the events of the year”
In a fitting end to a year in which he dominated TV screens and front pages, Donald Trump has been named Time magazine’s person of the year but the devil may be in the detail.
As editor-in-chief Nancy Gibbs explained the choice of Trump for the annual honour, social media users pointed out that whoever designed the cover had – inadvertently or perhaps deliberately – given the president-elect “devil’s horns”.
“Given the shape of the letter “m” in the magazine’s name and its location on the cover, many other subjects in the past have also appeared to sprout extra features,” the post read.
Gibbs said the cover recognises the person who “for better or for worse … has done the most to influence the events of the year”.
“It’s hard to measure the scale of his disruption … For reminding America that demagoguery feeds on despair and that truth is only as powerful as the trust in those who speak it, for empowering a hidden electorate by mainstreaming its furies and live-streaming its fears, and for framing tomorrow’s political culture by demolishing yesterday’s, Donald Trump is Time’s 2016 person of the year.”
