Trump named Time’s 2024 Person of the Year

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AFTER winning the US. presidential race this year, Donald Trump has been named Time’s 2024 Person of the Year.

It is the second time that Trump won the presidential race, and it is also the second time that he bagged the Time’s award.

Trump was previously named Person of the Year by Times in 2016 after his victory as President of the United States.

Trump, who will officially sit in office this January, rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on December 12.

“TIME Magazine, getting this honor for the second time, I think I like it better this time,” Trump said at the New York Stock Exchange before he rang the bell alongside TIME CEO Jessica Sibley and others.

Trump was accompanied by his wife Melanie, daughters Ivanka and Tiffany, and Vice President-elect JD Vance.

Incoming cabinet members of the Trump administration came in attendance, like Environmental Protection Agency nominee Lee Zeldin, Department of Housing and Urban Development nominee Scott Turner, Department of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Treasury Department nominee Scott Bessent.

Time magazine’s editor-chief describes the businessman-turned-politician as someone “who had the most influence on the news” this year “for better or for worse”.

“This is someone who made a historic comeback, who reshaped the American presidency and who’s reordering American politics," Jacobs said in an ABC News.

During his speech at NYSE said, he plans to create the incentive theory again once he sits in office.

“For those that are running the big companies, those great, big beautiful companies, nobody's going to be leaving us. You’re going to be coming back; you’re going to be bringing it back to the United States. We want you back here, car manufacturers, everybody,” Trump said as quoted by Time’s.

Trump granted the magazine’s request for an interview for a story in Time’s April issue this year, which left a positive note from the magazine’s owner, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff who criticized Vice President and Trump’s political opponent Kamala Harris who did not grant Times an interview during her campaign this year.

Trump’s political career marks a history in America’s politics, being the first US President to be elected to nonconsecutive terms.

He is also the first convicted felon who won the US presidential race.(LAO)