


Critics poured scorn on Time’s naming of Donald Trump as its 2024 “Person of the Year.”
The president-elect won “for marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a-generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world,” the publication’s editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs said in an article explaining the decision.
Trump received the same honor in 2016 after beating Hillary Clinton.
The returning POTUS fended off competition from his 2024 Democratic rival Kamala Harris, his new tech billionaire pal Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, among others, for this year’s title.
Jacobs said its editors had for 97 years picked the person who “for better or for worse, did the most to shape the world and the headlines over the past 12 months.”
Commenters on social media noted Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler as a previous recipient and argued that Trump was more in the “for worse” camp of why he’d gotten it.
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