Donald Trump was named Time magazine's 2024 Person of the Year on Thursday in recognition of his recent election victory, marking the second time the publication has named the president-elect. Republican candidate Donald Trump is campaigning for president across Pennsylvania
The president-elect, who once said the magazine
never nominated him, was already selected after his first election victory. Getty Images
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Highlights
Trump was named Person of the Year for "engineering a turnaround of historic proportions" that featured "a unique political realignment" and "a reshaping of the American presidency and a shift in America's role in the world," Time said. Trump topped a list that included Vice President Kamala Harris, Princess of Wales Kate Middleton, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, billionaire Elon Musk and podcast host Joe Rogan.
In an interview with Time, Trump said he would pardon the rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, "on a case-by-case basis" as one of his first acts as president, saying he would "probably" do so. in the nine minutes of money."
Time noted that after Trump's first presidency, the president-elect "[provoked] the violent attack" on the Capitol after losing the 2020 presidential election.
Key quotes
Time editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs wrote of Trump's election: "Since he began running for president in 2015, perhaps no individual has played a more significant role in changing the course of politics and history than Trump."