Year: 2024
Time Magazine Fact-Checks Its ‘Person of the Year,’ Donald Trump
The Associated Press published a piece about its fact0-check of the lengthy interview it conducted with Donald Trump for its “Person of the Year” issue:
Time magazine gave Donald Trump something it has never done for a Person of the Year designee: a lengthy fact-check of claims he made in an accompanying interview.
The fact-check accompanies a transcript of what the president-elect told the newsmagazine’s journalists. Described as a “12 minute read,” it calls into question 15 separate statements that Trump made.
It was the second time Trump earned the Time accolade; he also won in 2016, the first year he was elected president. Time editors said it wasn’t a particularly hard choice over other finalists Kamala Harris, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Kate Middleton.
Time said Friday that no other Person of the Year has been fact-checked in the near-century that the magazine has annually written about the figure that has had the greatest impact on the news. But it has done the same for past interviews with the likes of Joe Biden, Netanyahu and Trump.
McConnell Warns on Polio Vaccine
“The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives and held out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease. Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous.”
— Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who battled polio as a child, warned on Friday that anyone seeking a Senate confirmation should “steer clear” of associating with any efforts to undermine public confidence in the polio vaccine, the Washington Post reports.
Ollie-Ollie-Oligarchs!
As we hurtle toward Trump’s second inauguration,
The oligarchs slither to Mar-a-Lago sans cessation.
Zuckerberg gave a million
And Bezos gave two million,
As they crawl in thrall toward total degradation.
Amazon Gives $2 Million to Trump Inauguration
$2 million
Amazon is donating $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund and the company will air the event on its Prime Video service, reports USA Today. The Prime Video represents an in-kind donation worth another $1 million, the spokesperson said. The donations were first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
A Song for Our Times: ‘There Ain’t No You in United Health’
There’s No You in United Health
There’s an office in a building and a person in a chair
And you paid for it all though you may be unaware
You paid for the paper, you paid for the phone
You paid for everything they need to deny you what you’re owed
There ain’t no you in United Health
There ain’t no me in the company
There ain’t no us in the private trust
There’s hardly humans in humanity
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A Perverse Pick
He spreads lies and invective from there to here,
And his presidency is founded on retribution and fear.
He’s unethical and amoral,
Despicable and dishonorable,
So of course Donald Trump is Time’s Person of the Year.
