At one Trump golf resort, fake Time magazine covers are taken off the wall
By Francisco Alvarado and David A. Fahrenthold June 29 at 5:58 PM
DORAL, Fla.— Two copies of a fake Time Magazine cover that featured a picture of Donald Trump and a large headline praising him have been taken down from the walls of Trump’s golf resort here outside Miami, a few days after The Washington Post revealed that the cover was phony.
On the wall of the resort’s Champions sports bar, the spot formerly occupied by the fake magazine cover was empty. Only a pair of thumbtacks remained on the wood-paneled wall.
In the Doral resort’s pro shop, the phony Time portrait had been replaced by a framed copy of Fortune Magazine from 2004, depicting Trump with the headline “TRUMPED!” That cover is real, but it’s not quite as laudatory as the fake was: a smaller headline on the cover mentions “The mess at his casinos.”
Two hotel executives interviewed by The Washington Post said they had been “instructed to take down the artwork by our corporate team.” They would not say where the fake covers had gone. They spoke on the condition that their names not be used because they were not authorized to speak to the news media.
Earlier this week, The Post found evidence that the phony covers had been hung in at least eight Trump clubs, including the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. In at least two of them — Trump golf clubs in Ireland and Scotland — the cover had already been taken down by the time The Post story was published on Tuesday.
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