President-elect Trump has been named Time magazine's 2024 “Person of the Year.”
The traditional news magazine announced the decision on Thursday morning.
President Trump, 78, is scheduled to visit New York City early Thursday morning to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange.
in Announcing a feature The magazine's winner, Time, noted that the president-elect is now “the most powerful person in the world.”
“Trump's political renaissance is unprecedented in U.S. history. Trump's first term ended in disgrace, and his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results culminated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol. It has arrived,” the author writes. When he announced his candidacy in late 2022 amid multiple criminal investigations, he was shunned by most party officials. ”
“Just over a year later, Mr. Trump has defeated the Republican challenger and won one of the fastest-contested presidential primaries in history,” the post reads.
The magazine added that Trump has “reshaped American politics” and reshaped the Republican Party. The article said Democrats “reflected on what went wrong” in the recent election in which he defeated Vice President Harris.
“Democrats presumed that most of the country wanted a president who upheld liberal democratic norms, but President Trump has used a growing sense that the system is rigged to ensure that the country “They saw him as ready to break with the norms of liberal democracy,” Time reported.
Trump was also named Time Person of the Year in 2016, the year he won his first presidential election. Last year, pop star Taylor Swift was named the magazine's top runner-up.
Previous recipients include President Biden and Harris in 2020, tech billionaire Elon Musk in 2021 and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in 2022.
