Donald Trump was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2024 on Thursday in recognition of his latest election win, marking the second time the publication named the president-elect.
The president-elect, who once said the magazine would never name him, was previously selected after ... [+]
Trump was selected as “Person of the Year” for “marshaling a comeback of historic proportions” that featured his “driving a once-in-a-generational political realignment” and his “reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world,” Time announced.
Trump beat out a shortlist that included Vice President Kamala Harris, Kate Middleton the Princess of Wales, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, billionaire Elon Musk and podcast host Joe Rogan.
In an interview with Time, Trump said he would pardon rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on a “case-by-case” basis as one of his first acts of president, saying he would do so within “maybe the first nine minutes.”
Time noted that, after Trump’s first presidency, the president-elect had “[provoked] the violent attack” on the Capitol after losing the 2020 presidential election.
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Sam Jacobs, Time’s editor-in-chief, wrote about Trump’s selection: “Since he began running for president in 2015, perhaps no single individual has played a larger role in changing the course of politics and history than Trump.”
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