Donald Trump: “Time” names him “Person of the Year 2024”

“Time” has named Donald Trump (78) “Person of the Year 2024”. The US magazine officially announced this on Thursday afternoon (December 12th), after various US media outlets had learned from insider circles the day before that the choice had fallen on the US President, who was re-elected in November. After his first election victory in 2016, the magazine named the Republican “Person of the Year.”

On the magazine cover, unveiled Thursday, Trump is pictured gazing into the distance in his classic look, dark blue suit and red tie. About the 45th and soon-to-be 47th President of the United States it says, among other things: “Trump’s political rebirth is unprecedented in American history. His first term ended in disgrace: his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results culminated in the attack at the U.S. Capitol when he announced his candidacy in late 2022 amid multiple criminal investigations, he was shunned by most party officials.”

Donald Trump achieved something spectacular with his re-election after four years in office in November: “He realigned American politics, reshaped the GOP and confronted the Democrats with the question of what went wrong,” writes “Time.” And despite adverse circumstances: “During the general election, he spent six weeks in a New York courtroom and became the first former president to be convicted of a crime – a fact that hardly dented his support. In July, an assassin’s bullet missed his skull by just a few centimeters at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.”

Trump himself is certain: “This is the moment that changed a lot of people,” he said in the “Time” interview, which lasted a total of 65 minutes. A few minutes after the “Person of the Year” was announced, the magazine published .

Since 1927, “Time” magazine has awarded the title “Person of the Year” every year to the person who, in the editorial opinion, has significantly changed or moved the world in the respective year – be it in a positive or negative way. In recent years, pop star Taylor Swift (2023), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj (2022), tech entrepreneur Elon Musk (2021) and outgoing US President Joe Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris (2020) have had the honor of this title to be allowed to wear.