BURSTPresident-elect Trump has been named Time Magazine’s 2024 “Person of the Year.”
The legacy news magazine announced the decision Thursday morning.
Trump, 78, has plans to be in New York City early Thursday morning to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
In a feature announcing the magazine’s honoree, Time noted that the president-elect is now the “world’s most powerful man.”
“Trump’s political rebirth is unparalleled in American history," the author wrote. "His first term ended in disgrace, with his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results culminating in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was shunned by most party officials when he announced his candidacy in late 2022 amid multiple criminal investigations."
“Little more than a year later, Trump cleared the Republican field, clinching one of the fastest contested presidential primaries in history," the post reads.
The magazine added that Trump has “realigned American politics” and remade the Republican Party. The most recent election in which he defeated Vice President Harris, according to the story, left Democrats “reckoning with what went awry."
“While Democrats estimated that most of the country wanted a President who would uphold the norms of liberal democracy, Trump saw a nation ready to smash them, tapping into a growing sense that the system was rigged,” Time reported.
Trump was also named Time Person of the Year in 2016, when he won his first presidential election. Last year, pop star Taylor Swift was the magazine’s top choice.
Prior honorees include President Biden and Harris in 2020, tech billionaire Elon Musk in 2021, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2022.