Time magazine is being slammed by social media users over its cover story on controversial Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner, a sordid character who, among other things, sported a “Nazi” tattoo.
If the Maine oyster farmer is to unseat longtime incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins, he is going to have to overcome his unseemly past statements and character issues, including trashing the police, vulgar sexual takes, and mockery of a wounded U.S. soldier and Purple Heart recipient.
The publication is glossing over Platner’s ugly behavior to portray him as the Democrats’ great white hope, a hero who the party is willing to overlook his boatload of negatives because he’s a “fighter” who could help them retake control of the Senate.
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“TIME’s new cover: Even in this antiestablishment political moment, Graham Platner’s rise has been remarkable. His candidacy is forcing the party to come to terms with what it’s willing to risk in exchange for a fighter,” the publication said in an X post featuring a tough and tumble image of the candidate with the caption “Party Crasher.”
One disturbing aspect of Platner’s past that he isn’t going to be able to escape is the tattoo which bears a striking resemblance to a Totenkopf, a death’s head symbol used by Adolf Hitler’s Schutzstaffel (SS) killers.
Does Time Nazi the hypocrisy after the media’s incessant vilification of President Donald J. Trump and his supporters as Nazis?
X users were quick to point out the double standard.
So Donald Trump was Hitler, and all of us nazis, for a rally at Madison Square Garden. But the far left candidate with a Nazi tattoo is celebrated.
You don’t hate the media enough https://t.co/EUuDSxetHG
— Elizabeth Pipko (@elizabethpipko) May 21, 2026
The left is a joke.
They scream MAGA are “Nazis.”
Attack Pete Hegseth for a cross tattoo.Then they put Graham Platner — the guy with an ACTUAL Nazi tattoo, who praised Hamas tactics, mocked a Purple Heart hero, and blamed rape victims on their COVER.
It was NEVER about… https://t.co/JUJ98EtuTw
— Ashley Hayek (@ashleyhayek) May 22, 2026
TIME (pre-2026): Anyone using the wrong pronouns, doubting climate change, pointing out voter fraud or opposing illegal immigration is a NAZI!!!!
TIME (post-2026): Just because someone has a NAZI tattoo and likes NAZI shit doesn’t mean they are.
— ResponsibleAdult (@CommonishGround) May 22, 2026
Never forget that the assholes who spent decades labeling all of us nazis and cancelling us for the dumbest bullshit reasons imaginable are hypocritically running this asshole who got a literal fucking SS Totenkopf tattoo on his chest for the senate.
And here is TIME magazine… https://t.co/s7knSX6Kor
— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) May 21, 2026
willing to back a Nazi after calling Trump one for years
— NStep (@NStepisme) May 21, 2026
Time has the dubious distinction of actually featuring Hitler on its cover, honoring Der Führer as its “Man of the Year” for 1938, a time when his regime was rounding up Jews and sending them off to be murdered in concentration camps.
The more things change, the more they remain the same: pic.twitter.com/yOyV8a2cFO
— Mark Harrison e/acc (@meh_130) May 22, 2026
The author who penned the hagiographic piece says she joined Platner for three days in April as he stumped for voters, describing him as “carrying enough baggage to sink an oyster boat: a Nazi tattoo, a DUI from a post-military period of heavy drinking, and a trove of Reddit posts that spewed hostility in almost every direction.”
Endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Platner is a serious threat to Collins with his appeal to Maine voters as a rugged everyman, even if he may be a closet Nazi. And Time appears to be going full Goebbels to promote his candidacy.
