37 TIME Magazine Covers That Appeared to Give People Horns

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  • President-elect Donald Trump, Person of the Year 2016, photographed at his penthouse on the 66th floor of Trump Tower in New York City on Nov. 28.
    Photograph by Nadav Kander for TIME
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  • Person of the Year Pope Francis, Dec. 23, 2013
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  • Pope Francis, July 29, 2013
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  • Pope Benedict, May 2, 2005
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  • Pope John Paul II, Oct. 30, 1978
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  • Bill Clinton, March 2, 1998
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  • Bill Clinton, Dec. 21, 1998
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  • Bill Clinton, Jan. 4, 1993
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  • Bill Clinton, Oct. 1, 2012
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  • John Travolta as Bill Clinton, March 16, 1998
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  • Hillary Clinton, Nov. 16, 2009
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  • Margaret Thatcher, Dec. 3, 1990
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  • Prince Charles, May 15, 1978
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  • Vladimir Putin, Dec. 31, 2007
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  • Mamoud Ahmadinejad, Sept. 25, 2006
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  • George W. Bush, May 24, 2004
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  • David Petraeus, Sept. 17, 2007
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  • Saddam Hussein, april 21, 2003
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  • Barack Obama, Oct. 20, 2008
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  • Abraham Lincoln, July 4, 2005
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 6, 2009
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  • Russell Crowe, Nov. 10, 2003
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  • Kathryn Bigelow, Feb. 4, 2013
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  • Angelina Jolie, May 27, 2013
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  • Kate Winslet, March 2, 2009
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  • Jay Leno, Sept. 14, 2009
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  • Darth Vader, May 9, 2005
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  • Jodie Foster, Oct. 14, 1991
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  • Bill Gates, June 5, 1995
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  • Jonathan Franzen, Aug. 23, 2010
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  • Billy Graham, Aug. 20, 2007
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  • Jesus, April 12, 2004
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  • The GOP, Oct. 16, 2006
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By TIME Staff
Updated: March 29, 2018 10:32 AM ET | Originally published: March 12, 2015 12:14 PM EDT

There was some hubbub in late 2016 over TIME’s new Person of the Year cover, which appeared to show President-elect Donald Trump sporting a set of red horns. (This sort of thing has happened before.) Given the shape of the letter “m” in the magazine’s name and its location on the cover, many other subjects in the past have also appeared to sprout extra features. It’s happened to Hillary Clinton at least twice. It’s happened to Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, too. In January 2017, it happened to Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief White House strategist.

Here’s everyone—from Margaret Thatcher to Pope Francis, and Jesus to Darth Vader—who has received the rough end of TIME’s “horns.” Any resemblance to cats, bats or devil horns is entirely coincidental.

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