After President Joe Biden made Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” list three years in a row, the publication did not include him or former President Donald Trump in this year’s edition.
Trump and Biden’s exclusion from the list marks the first time since at least 2000 in which both presidential candidates were not included on the Time 100 list in an election year.
Hillary Clinton and Trump both made the list in 2016, as well as Biden and Trump in 2020. Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, John McCain, John Kerry, and George W. Bush all made it on to the list in the past.
The move reinforces a feeling of frustration among voters that the 2024 election features two candidates who are unusually unpopular. The magazine did not mention Trump or Biden in a supplemental article explaining how it chose this year’s list that aims to feature the world’s most influential people yet did not list the leader of the free world or his challenger.
The Washington Examiner has asked Time why Trump or Biden weren’t on the list when both presidential candidates have been on the Time 100 list in the past two election cycles.
Vice President Kamala Harris also did not make this year’s catalog after being featured multiple times in the past. Unlike Trump, Harris and Biden wrote entries for Yulia Navalnaya and Shawn Fain, respectively.
Navalnaya is the widow of former Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and Fain is the United Automobile Workers’ president. Harris praised Navalnaya for her courage in addressing her husband’s death, news that had been hours old, at the Munich Security Conference where Harris was speaking.
Biden wrote a glowing recommendation of Fain, saying they “share a basic view of how workers deserve to be treated.” He continued by praising Fain’s victory in acquiring “historic” wage increases for auto workers in his union.
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In last year’s list, Time Senior Correspondent Brian Bennett wrote Biden’s entry with a focus on his 2024 reelection campaign and outlined his accomplishments to that point.
While Biden, Trump, and Harris were all held off the list, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) had entries. Other world leaders, such as Argentina’s Javier Milei, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, Kenya’s William Ruto, and China’s Premier Li Qiang, all made the list as well.