2020 Will Be the Last Election That’s Not About Climate Change
Every political issue will be soon a climate change issue
It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to notice he was not named TIME magazine’s person of the year for 2019.
“So ridiculous,” Trump tweeted shortly after TIME revealed 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg as its choice. “Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!” Later a fan account, called the Trump War Room, posted an altered version of the TIME cover. The front-page photo still featured Thunberg, but only her body. The image was edited to have her head replaced by Trump’s.
This wasn’t the first time Trump featured on a fake TIME magazine cover. In 2017, the Washington Post reported that a fake TIME magazine cover featuring Trump was framed and hung at as many as five of his golf properties. It was, in fairness, a convincing forgery. Part of what made it believable is that uncharacteristically, it wasn’t all about Trump. Other headlines took up the phony cover, allowing it to straddle both the real world and Trump’s alternate reality. One of those headlines? “Global warming: A new age of extinction.”
