Donald Trump  named Time magazine's Person  of the Year for the second time

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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."