Trump is going to go fffffingg nuts. And that is the story here. There is nothing very newsworthy about Time dropping Trump from the 100 most influential people on Earth list.

Once one understands how Time breaks down the list and then reads who Time picked, it is clearly not a real list of the 100 most influential people on Earth. And Trump, as the leader of the Right wing movement in the most powerful and richest nation on Earth is absolutely one of the 100 most influential people. But Time’s breakdown makes the actual premise kind of silly and thus, again, the story is Trump’s reaction that you know is coming.

First of all, Keanu Reeves made the list, Barack Obama and Trump did not. That tells you a lot about what you need to know. Time breaks the list into categories and doing so automatically creates a disparity between real influence and influence in certain areas; The list is broken down into Artists, Innovators, Titans, Leaders, Icons, and Pioneers. Certainly top 100 people can come from any of those categories but given they all have approximately the same number of representatives… you get a situation where Keanu Reeves is on the list but Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Stacey Abrams, or – hell, Justin Trudeau, and Emmanuel Macron are not.

So it’s actually not that startling that Trump would be left off the list. It is the fact that he’s going to go fffffing nuts seeing Kevin McCarthy and Ron DeSantis (the only two Republicans) on the list but not him. Admittedly, that is kind of stupid. There is NO way Kevin McCarthy is more influential than Trump… DeSantis has a case.

I think the person that will enrage Trump the most though, has to be Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General. Obviously she belongs on the list for many reasons. She’s the first Black woman to serve New York State’s attorney general, and her investigation into Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment claims is one of the things that led to his resignation. But let’s be real. The reason she’s on that list is because she knows Donald Trump is a criminal, and her investigation into his business dealings, might end up being the only justice Trump ever faces.

And of course Joe Biden is on the list, so that will sting as well.

But Trump’s coming reaction? Now that will be something enjoyable to start the week.

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