Time: No, we didn't give Trump 'devil horns'

This image provided by Time magazine, shows the cover of the magazine's Person of the Year edition with President-elect Donald Trump in New York. This image provided by Time magazine, shows the cover of the magazine's Person of the Year edition with President-elect Donald Trump in New York. Photo: Nadav Kander, Associated Press Photo: Nadav Kander, Associated Press Image 1 of / 4 Caption Close Time: No, we didn't give Trump 'devil horns' 1 / 4 Back to Gallery

Time on Wednesday named Donald Trump its Person of the Year and revealed the magazine cover.

But it wasn't the blunt "President of the Divided States of America" underline that made the Internet take notice. It was the "devil horns."

Apparently many people viewed the positioning of Trump's photo over the red "M" in "TIME" as a deliberate attempt to give the president-elect satanic growths rising from his coiffed combover.

did they … wait … are those … devil horns? pic.twitter.com/LgittWyTEa — Mike, but furious (@mikerugnetta) December 7, 2016

Time, of course, denied using typography to suggest that the next president of the United States is in fact a demon from hell.

"There was some hubbub online Wednesday over TIME's new Person of the Year cover, which appeared to show Donald Trump sporting a set of horns (This sort of thing has happened before)," Time magazine explained in a statement online Thursday morning.

And indeed, photos of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Pope Francis and dozens of others have sprouted horns, thanks to that oversized "M" getting in the way.

"Any resemblance to cats, bats or devil horns is entirely coincidental," the magazine stated.

Maybe they should run that disclaimer on the cover of the next Person of the Year.