Headline writers are envious. Connoisseurs of fine wordplay are swooning. Someone at Time magazine thunk up “Red Handed” as cover label for its coverage of the Donald Trump Jr. email scandal.
Regardless of the story’s fallout, “Red Handed” is worth celebrating for its ability to capture in only two words the media zeitgeist.
The key is the Russia reference in “Red” — even though the Soviet successor state is no longer communist.
In any case, fans and critics of the president are having a field day with Time — and whether the president will hang this cover on the walls of Mar-a-Lago.