For the second time in less than 10 years, Donald Trump is set to be named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.”
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According to CNN, the publication will name the President-elect as the 2024 choice on Thursday, Dec. 12. The soon-to-be world leader is recognized as the individual who wielded the greatest influence on global affairs “for good or for ill.”
Taylor Swift was last year’s Person of the Year.
A source revealed Trump will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as part of the celebration.
Although Time didn’t comment before its announcement, Donald Trump Jr. took to his Twitter to praise his father’s latest publication achievement.
“Trump wins Tim Person of the Year,” the President-elect’s eldest son declared. “Are you sick of all the winning yet?”
Trump previously displayed a Time cover naming him Person of the Year in 2009 inside his golf clubs. However, The Washington Post reported that no such issue was ever printed.
Along with Trump and Swift, Pope Francis, Greta Thunberg, and Elon Musk have also been named Time’s Person of the Year.
Former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton also received the Person of the Year title twice.
Donald Trump Previously Stated to Be on the Cover of Time as Person of the Year Was a ‘Tremendous Honor’
Just after Time publicly declared Donald Trump as Person of the Year in 2016, Donald Trump celebrated the news by declaring it was a tremendous honor to be the publication’s year-end cover.
“To be on the cover of Time as Person of the Year is a tremendous honor,” he told Today’s former host, Matt Lauer.
Trump further addressed the publication’s choice to refer to him as the “President of the Divided States of America.”
“When you say ‘divided states of America,’ I didn’t divide them,” he explained. “They’re divided now, there’s a lot of division. And we’re going to put it back together.”
Time managing editor Nancy Gibbs shared in an essay what it meant for Trump to receive the title.
“So which is it this year: Better or worse? The challenge for Donald Trump is how profoundly the country disagrees about the answer,” she wrote.
“For reminding America that demagoguery feeds on despair and that truth is only as powerful as the trust in those who speak it,” Gibbs continued. “For empowering a hidden electorate by mainstreaming its furies and live-streaming its fears, and for framing tomorrow’s political culture by demolishing yesterday’s, Donald Trump is Time’s 2016 Person of the Year.”