The internet sees Donald Trump as the Devil on new Time cover

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Is that the Devil in disguise?

Time named Donald Trump person of the year on Wednesday, unsurprisingly. And seemingly half the internet was convinced the magazine's designers decided to portray the president-elect as Satan on the cover.

With a suspect placement of the iconic M over his bouffant mane that lent the former reality TV star two sharp red horns, Trump looked a lot like Beelzebub to some.


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The theory made the rounds on Twitter Wednesday.

Others saw the red protrusions as the mark of a cuckold.

Time, for its part, played down the issue, insisting "any resemblance to cats, bats or devil horns is entirely coincidental" and listing 35 times a similar thing has happened.

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Tim Chester was Senior Editor, Real Time News in Los Angeles. Before that he was Deputy Editor of Mashable UK in London. Prior to joining Mashable, Tim was a Senior Web Editor at Penguin Random House, helping to relaunch the Rough Guides website and other travel brands. He was also a writer for Buzzfeed, GQ and The Sunday Times, covering everything from culture to tech and current affairs. Before that, he was Deputy Editor at NME.COM, overseeing content and development on the London-based music and entertainment site. Tim loves music and travel and has combined these two passions at festivals from Iceland to Malawi and beyond.

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