While describing Trump as the real change-maker of 2016, the magazine also ragged on the Republican president-elect as a "huckster" and "demagogue" while reserving its most glowing praise for runner-up Hillary Clinton -- whom the edition breathlessly described as "an American Moses." 

In describing Trump, Time's article almost exclusively used backhanded compliments. For instance, while the piece said he "did what no American politician had attempted in a generation," it added that he "magnified the divisions of the present, inspiring new levels of anger and fear within his country."

The article on Hillary Clinton is much different. Subtitled "The winner of the popular vote leaves a complicated legacy," the tone is worlds away from the fulminating darkness that permeates the Trump piece.