claim: Fake "Time" magazine covers featuring Donald Trump were found at several of his golf resorts.
origin: On 27 June 2017, the Washington PostÂ published aÂ storyÂ about decor at four of President Donald Trumpâ€™s golf resorts. ItÂ revealed that the resorts contained bogus magazine covers made up to look like issues of TimeÂ featuring Trump on the cover and promoting his reality television show â€œThe Apprenticeâ€: < It is not clear who created this fake Time cover â€” or why. Its date might be a clue: March 1, 2009, was the season debut of Trumpâ€™s show â€œThe Celebrity Apprentice.â€ But a transcript of that show offers no answers. In that episode, various B-list celebrities competed to sell cupcakes, and Trump fired comedian Andrew Dice Clay for poor performance. Nobody mentioned Time magazine. While itâ€™s not difficult to mock up a fake cover using graphic-design software, whoever made this one sought out real Time headlines, to add to the fake. > The faux covers were dated 1 March 2009 â€” the same day the show premiered â€” but as the Washington Post article noted, the magazine did not publish an issue on that date. However, it did publish an issue aÂ day later with actress Kate Winslet on the cover, and which did not mention Trump at all. Two of the headlines used in the actual 2 March 2009 issue of Time (â€œHow Stressed Is Your Bank? A Checkupâ€ and â€œObamaâ€™s Next Move: Can He Curb Health Care Costs?â€) appeared onÂ the mocked-up cover, which was spotted on display in Trump resorts in Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Virginia and his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida among others. Employees at the Turnberry resort in Scotland also reported that the cover had been displayed there until they took it downÂ because of â€œgrumbling about all the stuff like that up on the wallsâ€ by American tourists. The Washington Post, which published the story, later reported that it was also taken down from Trumpâ€™s golf course in Ireland. The fake magazine cover also contained a fake bar code which was used in a graphic design tutorial posted by graphic designer Leonardo Amoretti on his blog in 2010, which also displayed a mockup of a â€œTimeâ€ cover: Amoretti notes in his post: < The use of TIME magazine logo on this tutorial is just for instructional purposes and not intended to violate the magazine copyrights. > A spokesperson for the magazine said that it requested the removal of the magazine from the resorts. White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders has not commented on whether the president was aware of the fake nature of the magazine covers. Neither TimeÂ nor the White House press office responded to our requests for comment at press time.