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President Trump Tweets He Turned Down Time Magazine's 2017 Person of the Year Award


In just a couple of weeks, we’ll find out who has the distinction of being Time’s 2017 Person of the Year—typically, yes, a person (though it can also be a group, object, or idea) who has most influenced the year’s events, whether that’s in a good way or not so much. Last year, the nomination went to just-elected, not-yet-inaugurated Donald Trump. But the now-President is apparently contemplating his place in the canon once again: On Friday, Trump tweeted that he was “PROBABLY going to be named” (emphasis his) Person of the Year once again; however, he wrote, he turned the magazine’s offer down because “probably” just wasn’t good enough. And it wasn’t long before Time issued a correction to Trump’s story.

Trump tweeted, “Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named ‘Man (Person) of the Year,’ like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!”

A few hours later, the magazine tweeted its response, stating, “The President is incorrect about how we choose Person of the Year. TIME does not comment on our choice until publication, which is December 6.”

Even the chief content officer of Time Inc. tweeted to clarify Trump’s claim: “Amazing. Not a speck of truth here—Trump tweets he ‘took a pass’ at being named TIME’s person of the year.”

Of course, Twitter users threw their two cents into the ring about Trump’s tweet—and the results were incredible.

(Speaking of, it’s worth noting that #MeToo is currently beating Trump in Time‘s reader poll for Person of the Year nominations.)

When Trump was named 2016’s Person of the Year, he told Matt Lauer that he considered it “a very, very great honor.” Meanwhile, the magazine’s then-editor-in-chief, Nancy Gibbs, wrote about Trump’s nomination following the announcement: “So which is it this year: Better or worse? The challenge for Donald Trump is how profoundly the country disagrees about the answer.”

It’s not the first time Trump’s had a thing about Time: He often brags about the number of times he’s appeared on the publication’s cover. He’s even claimed to hold the record for number of cover appearances, at 14—however, former President Nixon has had more than three times as many. Earlier this year, it came out that Trump displayed fake issues of Time with his face on the cover in five of his golf clubs.

In the meantime, we’ll be waiting to find out who the person of the year actually will be—but for now, it seems we can chalk Trump’s tweet up to fake news.

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Ellen DeGeneres Will Donate Money Every Time Someone Tweets #BeKindToElephants


Ellen DeGeneres is standing up for elephants by taking a stand against President Donald Trump.

On Thursday, DeGeneres took time during her show to explain to her massive audience that Trump plans to reverse an Obama-era ban on importing elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia.

“I want to talk about the elephant in the room. Literally, I want to talk about elephants,” DeGeneres said in a clip posted to Twitter.

After explaining Trump’s new policies on allowing people to bring parts of elephants back to the U.S. that were killed as trophies, DeGeneres argued, “Basically, by lifting this ban, he is encouraging Americans to kill elephants.”

The host added, “I love elephants, and if you take the time to learn about elephants, you would love elephants, too. Elephants show compassion, sympathy, social intelligence, self-awareness. They’re excellent at learning abilities. All the things I have yet to see in this president.”

To help combat this horrific policy reversal DeGeneres announced a new social media campaign aimed at raising both awareness of elephant poaching and raising funds for the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a nonprofit that benefits African elephants.

With the campaign, DeGeneres said she will donate an undisclosed amount for every person who uses the #BeKindToElephants hashtag and reshares the image she created.

“If you’re not outraged, then I beg you to take a little time just to learn about elephants,” DeGeneres said while ending the clip. “They are worth fighting for, and we owe it to them to protect them.”

According to the World Wildlife Fund, African elephants are still listed as “vulnerable” to extinction. Their population, the WWF explained, plays a critical role in maintaining suitable habitats for many other species. It added, “In central African forests, up to 30 percent of tree species may require elephants to help with dispersal and germination. They play a pivotal role in shaping their habitat because of the enormous impact they have on factors ranging from fresh water to forest cover.”

But as the organization said, elephant populations are already in severe danger due to recent surges in poaching, something that surely will not be helped by opening the door for more trophy hunting.





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Rose McGowan Accuses Harvey Weinstein of Rape In New Tweets


Last week actress Rose McGowan was named as one of the numerous women who have brought forward allegations of sexual misconduct against Harvey Weinstein–and as the paper reported, McGowan reached a $100,000 settlement with the producer in 1997. The settlement stemmed from an incident at a hotel during the Sundance Film Festival but exact McGowan was seemingly forbidden from speaking about them because of a nondisclosure agreement.

According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter, journalist Ronan Farrow had secured an interview with McGowan for a piece he was working on about Weinstein—one that he initially planned to cover for NBC News but was ultimately published in The New Yorker. But, after McGowan gave the interview “her lawyer contacted Farrow and NBC to revoke consent because it could put her in legal jeopardy given the terms of her settlement agreement,” said “sources with knowledge of the situation.”

In 2016, McGowan tweeted that she had raped by a Hollywood executive and on Thursday afternoon, in a series of tweets directed at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the actress alleged that Harvey Weinstein raped her.

McGowan’s tweets came just hours after the actress was temporarily suspended from the social media platform. Twitter said that they blocked her account because she had posted a private phone number, thus violating their terms of service, and added that they are “proud to empower and support the voices on our platform, especially those that speak truth to power.”



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Kim Kardashian's Response to Trump's Puerto Rico Tweets Is the Message He Needs to Hear


You know things are bad when Kim Kardashian tweets at the president with a poignant message we’d all like him to hear. To nobody’s surprise, President Trump took to Twitter this weekend to praise his handling of relief efforts in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico after the federal government’s response was severely criticized for essentially being too little, too late.

Amid a stream of tweets bolstering his own image and going after the media, Trump had a message for the people of Puerto Rico: “Do not believe the Fake News!” A rather thoughtless comment to make to 3.4 million people who don’t have electricity or water, not to mention cell service or internet access. As the rest of us face-palmed and shook our heads in frustration, fellow frequent tweeter (and fellow reality star) Kardashian shot off a response that actually has a chance of crossing the president’s radar.

“They don’t have power to watch the news!!! Please stop tweeting & golfing while people are dying! Please step up & help!” she wrote.

Nailed it. While the accuracy of the media coverage of the situation in Puerto Rico is important to those of us feeling helpless watching from afar, it’s likely not on the top of residents’ minds. Basic necessities like running water and electricity are still far from being restored for most of the island’s citizens.

And while it might be easy to turn the tables on Kim and say that her tweets aren’t really helping either, she and the rest of the Kardashians have donated their fair share in response to Hurricane Harvey, the earthquake in Mexico, and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Plus, Kim has encouraged her nearly 56 million followers to donate—and they have.

Given that Twitter has been Kim’s outlet of choice to comment on rumors surrounding the surge of baby news in her family, we’ve been paying close attention to her feed. And this clapback isn’t all that different from her others—it just happens to be pointed directly at the president of the United States. And when Kim Kardashian is pleading with Trump to quit tweeting about nonsense and do something helpful, you know things are bad. But we hope he listens.

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It Took Trump Three Tweets to Spell "Heal" Right, and the Internet Lost It


As we all know by now, no one loves Twitter more than President Donald Trump. Unfortunately, he seems to be particularly prone toward misstating facts and making typos. After all, who can forget “covfefe”? (We won’t, probably ever.) But Saturday seemed to be an especially bad grammar day for him—and Twitter wasn’t about to let that go unnoticed.

Following the “Free Speech” rally that afternoon in Boston, and the counter-protests that took place there and across the country in solidarity with Charlottesville, Trump took to Twitter.

The president used the platform to issue a statement that was meant to be poignant, but the message was somewhat disrupted by an egregious error courtesy of one particular spelling bugaboo: the dreaded homophone. Here’s what he tweeted:

“Our great country has been divided for decade,but it will come together again.Sometimes protest is needed in order to heel, and heel we will!”

His tweet was promptly screen-captured, obviously, to live on in infamy.

The tweet was up for about half an hour before Trump (or a brave soul) noticed his mistake, and he quickly edited his statement.

Only he forgot—or still hadn’t noticed—the misspelling, so he only changed “for decade” to “for decades” and added the missing spaces.

As editors and teachers across the U.S. experienced a spontaneous, collective shudder, Trump tried again. Luckily, the third time was the charm.

Of course, plenty of observant Twitter users had already documented the previous attempts—so it didn’t take long before the jokes and memes were scrolling in.

Even Merriam-Webster—which is not only a definitive reference for the English language but is also quickly carving out a Twitter reputation for being shady AF—chimed in:

Next time maybe Trump will consult that dictionary first.

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