Trump Businesses Display Fake Time Magazine Cover: Washington Post

WASHINGTON, DC — Time Magazine requested Tuesday that the Trump Organization remove all copies of a counterfeit cover that the president's business have displayed, a forgery that was first reported by the Washington Post. According to an article by David Farenthold, who has been a dogged investigator of President Trump's businesses and charitable activities, the fake cover bearing a picture of Trump has hung in at least four of the organization's golf clubs.

A headline on the front of the cover reads: “Donald Trump: The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!” But as Farenthold discovered, the cover was is not genuinely a product of Time Magazine; while Trump has appeared on the magazine's cover before, he was not featured on March 1, 2009, the ostensible date of the fake issue. Time confirmed that the cover was fake to the Washington Post.

The news broke on the same day that Trump, along with his Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, criticized CNN for retracting a story about the president's supposed ties to Russia that was thinly sourced and not sufficiently vetted. Trump has previously decried CNN for being "fake news."

Read the full report at the Washington Post.

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