Trump Time's Man of the Year 2016, yeah, you read that right

[Flossie]

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TIME Person of the Year for 2016 is President-elect Donald Trump

President-elect Donald Trump, the real estate businessman and political novice whose election campaign made the entire world take notice, has been selected as TIME’s 2016 Person of the Year. 

The magazine revealed its choice Wednesday on TODAY. 

"To be on the cover of Time as Person of the Year is a tremendous honor," Trump told Matt Lauer in an interview after the reveal. 

The president-elect did however take issue with the magazine's choice to refer to him as "President of the Divided States of America." 

"When you say 'divided states of America,' I didn’t divide them," Trump said. "They’re divided now, there’s a lot of division. And we’re going to put it back together." 

Every year, TIME editors select the person — or idea — who has most influenced the news and the world in the past year, for good or ill. 

"So which is it this year: Better or worse? The challenge for Donald Trump is how profoundly the country disagrees about the answer," TIME managing editor Nancy Gibbs wrote in a magazine essay. 

Trump beat out 10 other finalists, including his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. TIME declared Clinton their runner-up, and she was also the top pick among TODAY viewers. 

This will be Trump’s 10th time on the magazine’s cover, and all but one have been since August 2015. His first appearance on TIME was in 1989. 

"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. 

Last year’s recipient was German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Trump was a runner-up. The year before that, 2014, the Person of the Year were the Ebola fighters. 

The magazine has made the designation every year since 1927, when aviator Charles Lindbergh was chosen as the first Man of the Year. The title was amended to Person of the Year in 1999. 

Over its history, TIME has bestowed the title to many presidents, political leaders and industry trailblazers who often view the designation as an honor. However, the magazine also has selected notorious recipients in the past, including Adolf Hitler in 1938, Joseph Stalin in 1939 and 1942, and Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, because of the impact they had on the world at the time. 

 

Trump considers this an honor.
 

[Summer60]

I am hoping the preemptive comparison to Stalin and Khomeini is unjust!


I find the Person of the Year thing to be a joke anyway, but interesting nonetheless.

Hillary Clinton is number 2.

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In her 1969 commencement address to her class at Wellesley College, Clinton called politics “the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.” In this, she has succeeded. Like an American Moses, she was an imperfect prophet, leading women to the edge of the Promised Land. Now it’s up to another woman to enter it.

I couldn't help but think of Book of Mormon's, All American Prophet when I read this. No attack on Clinton intended, but I did laugh.

All American Prophet

[GeoBQn]

2016: The year Godwin's law gets obliterated.

[JMarie]

Well, he was on the cover of Mad magazine's end of year issue.  I'm guessing Trump doesn't consider that one an honor.

http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2015/12/01/donald-trump-covers-this-years-mad-20

[candygirl200413]

I loved this bit of SNL weekend update with "Angela Merkel"