President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that he "took a pass" at being named Time magazine's "Person of the Year," but the company's chief content officer said there "wasn't a speck of truth" in the president's social media comment, CNN reported.
“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,” Trump tweeted from his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, where he is spending his Thanksgiving holiday. “I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!” Trump wrote.
The magazine issued a statement that disputed the President’s tweet, CNN reported.
“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,” the magazine wrote on its Twitter feed.
Time Inc.’s chief content officer, Alan Murray, tweeted that the President's tweet didn't have “a speck of truth.”
“Amazing. Not a speck of truth here — Trump tweets he 'took a pass' at being named TIME's person of the year,” Murray tweeted.
The President was named Time’s “person of the year” in 2016 after his victory over Hillary Clinton.
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