Donald Trump named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for ‘defying expectations, breaking the rules, violating norms’
Magazine gives the title to the person who has had the greatest influence on events “for better or worse”
Time magazine on Wednesday named US president-elect Donald Trump its Person of the Year.
“It’s a great honour. It means a lot,” Trump said in a telephone interview on NBC’s Today show.
Time editor Nancy Gibbs said on the programme that Democrat Hillary Clinton was the No.2 finalist. Gibbs said the choice of Trump this year was “straightforward”.
“When have we ever seen a single individual who has so defied expectations, broken the rules, violated norms, beaten not one but two political parties on the way to winning an election that he entered with 100-to-1 odds against him?” Gibbs said.
The Time cover reads: “Donald Trump: President of the Divided States of America” and the cover image features a photograph of the president-elect sitting in his private residence at Trump Tower.
In the NBC interview, Trump took issue with the “Divided States of America” description: “I didn’t divide ‘em,” he said. “We’re going to put it back together and we’re going to have a country that’s very well-healed.”