The US magazine Time has named President-elect Donald Trump its Person of the Year for 2024.
“Trump’s political rebirth is unparalleled in American history,” the magazine wrote in its justification on Thursday. “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.”
The Time editorial team has been honouring the most influential personalities in world affairs since 1927, and emphasizes that means the person “who, for better or for worse, has most shaped the world and the headlines of the past twelve months.”
In many years, the choice is a difficult one, the magazine’s editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs wrote. “In 2024, it was not.” “On the cusp of his second presidency, all of us - from his most fanatical supporters to his most fervent critics - are living in the Age of Trump.”
The 78-year-old won the presidential election in early November by a landslide against his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris. After his first - and at the time surprising - election victory in 2016, Time magazine had previously named Trump “Person of the Year”. This time, the award was presented in a special way: Trump rang the bell to open trading on the stock exchange on Wall Street in New York. The US president-elect was accompanied by his wife Melania. (DPA)
