On Wednesday, Time Magazine announced what everybody already knew. Donald Trump was their person of the year.

The left, of course, had a field day comparing Trump to 1938 Time Man of the Year Adolf Hitler.

To be fair, the right made some of those same comparisons when Barack Obama was time person of the year in 2012.

But there's something rather telling about the media in comparing and contrasting their 2016 and 2012 and 2008 people of the year. So here is what

the 2008 cover looked like, right? There's Barack Obama in all of his shining magisterial glory.

Here is the 2012 cover from time. There's Barack Obama gazing into history somberly. And then

there is Trump on the cover of time this year, right, kind of gazing over his shoulder

in what looks to be a leather mafia chair. Now, first of all, let's look at the art. So that 2008

Obama image poster is very clearly a mirror of the Hope poster, right? Let's see the Hope poster,

if we can grab that. Right, upward looking from Obama, gazing into history, beacon of change and light,

all of the half colors going on. That's obviously what that is a shout out to. The 2012 Obama

image, that is a mirror of this famous JFK portrait that shows him contemplating his own place in

history. So here's the JFK portrait. You can see him kind of looking down in half of his face is in shadow. And then here's the one from Obama 2012. If we can grab that again,

you can see it's very clearly meant to mirror that, including the shadowy kind of face.

In 2016, the Trump image mirrors the churis-scuro of the godfather, right? It looks like that.

Right? Let's look at the Trump cover again and then there's the godfather. Right? Very clearly,

that's what they're attempting to do. The media are already tempting to tell their story. Obama was a wonderful, deep shimmering image of joy, a historic figure. Trump is a gangster. But even more clearly, time is attempting to suggest that Trump is somehow indicative of a divide of an America that didn't exist when Obama was on the ballot.

In 2012, you'll notice, they simply labeled Obama president. Trump, however, is president of the divided states of America, as you can see. How do we get divided? Presumably, according to time that's due to Trump, or at least because of his supporters. Now, does anyone believe that if 80,000 votes in the

swing states had gone the other way and Hillary had been on the cover, time would have labeled her

president of the divided states? Of course not. All of which shows why Trump regularly slapped the media

and why it worked. Most Americans know the country was not a paradisical place of whimsy and unity

under Barack Obama. We've been divided for at least a decade, and Obama exacerbated that divide.

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