Trump is Time magazine's Person of the Year

Dec 08, 2016, 01:14
Trump is Time magazine's Person of the Year

In 2015, he was the runner-up, but in 2016 Donald Trump takes the title as Time's Person of the Year.

"For reminding America that demagoguery feeds on despair and that truth is only as powerful as the trust in those who speak it, 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", Gibbs wrote. "It means a lot", Trump said in a telephone interview on NBC's Today show.

"It's a great honour".

The newsmagazine billed Trump as president of "the divided states of America". "When have we ever seen a single individual who has so defied expectations, broken the rules, violated norms... We're going to put it back together", he said.

"I don't think that we have ever seen one person operating in such an unconventional way have an impact on events of the year quite like this", TIME's editor in chief Nancy Gibbs said.

Trump went from fiery underdog in the race for the GOP presidential nomination to defeating Clinton in the November 8 election.

Mr Trump won 306 electoral votes, enough to make him President even though his Democratic rival won the popular vote.

The magazine wrote that the USA was divided on whether Trump had influenced 2016 "better or worse".

The President-elect, who came was placed third previous year, said receiving the title was a "great honour".

Trump is not the first authoritarian strongmen to win the accolade, which began in 1927 and has been given to many questionable characters deemed to have set the news of a year more than anyone else.

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