President-elect Donald Trump was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, the magazine announced Thursday, after becoming the second president in U.S. history to lose re-election and then reclaim the White House four years later.
Trump beat a short list of finalists for the title, which included Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s billionaire ally. Elon MuskIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Catherine, Princess of Walesaka Kate Middleton. (Musk was Time’s pick in 2021.)
Trump is expected to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan to mark the occasion. This will be the first time the real estate mogul turned politician will ring the bell, according to the Associated Press.
Trump was also Time’s Person of the Year in 2016when he upended Washington’s expectations by defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president. Trump is only the second president to serve non-consecutive terms, the other being Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s.
Since 2000, Time has crowned the winner of the presidential race as Person of the Year, awarding it jointly to President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in 2020. Former President Barack Obama won the title in 2008 and 2012, and former President George W. Bush also held it in 2004 and 2000. Bill Clinton won the title in 1993 and 1998 (the sharing with Kenneth). Starr), George HW Bush in 1988, Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1983 and Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Time has named a Person of the Year (originally called Man of the Year) every year since 1927, almost a century ago. The magazine describes the title as not necessarily an honor or award, but rather states that it is chosen based on a person’s influence and prominence in a given year.
Before Carter, other presidents who held the title were Richard Nixon in 1971 and 1972, Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and 1967, John F. Kennedy in 1961, Dwight Eisenhower in 1959 (he also won the title in 1944 while leading Allied Forces). in Europe during World War II), Harry Truman in 1945 and 1948, and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, 1934 and 1941.
