Our Vice President shot someone in the face. Leaders in North Korea tested nuclear weapons. "To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006," wrote Lev Grossman. Time defended its 2006 choice by saying there were no "great men" on whom to bestow the honor. With all sides of the political spectrum propagating Trump's messages of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia-either through direct endorsements or indirect signal boosting through ironic retweets or finger-wagging responses-it seems as if Time's 2006 Person of the Year-You, and maybe Me, too-helped elect the man who earned this year's honor. Ten years ago, Time chose another controversial "person": You, the collective users of the Internet. By the morning of November 9, for better or worse, Trump had solidified his place in history-and in pop culture. After a gaffe or five, an October issue reused the image, depicting Trump as a puddle of orange and yellow. An August cover of the weekly magazine featured a stylized cartoon of the President-elect's face melting as if it were the subject of a Salvador Dalí painting. All Rights Reserved.It should be no surprise that Time named Donald Trump as 2016's Person of the Year. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. "It means a lot, especially me growing up reading Time magazine, and you know, it's a very important magazine, and I've been lucky enough to be on the cover many times this year," he said on NBC. Trump on Wednesday, however, called the magazine "important." Trump, who had been a finalist, tweeted the magazine "would never pick me as person of the year despite being the big favorite." Trump criticized the magazine last year when it picked Merkel, who he called the "person who is ruining Germany." Trump has already appeared on Time's cover on numerous occasions this year, including two covers published before the election that featured a cartoon illustration of his melting face titled "Meltdown" and "Total meltdown." "So which is it this year: Better or worse? The challenge for Donald Trump is how profoundly the country disagrees about the answer." "It's hard to measure the scale of his disruption," Gibbs wrote in the magazine's article about choosing Trump this year. Other women have been named as part of a group or class of people. In its 90-year history, Time has named only four individual women: American socialite Wallis Simpson, whose marriage to King Edward VIII caused a constitutional crisis, Queen Elizabeth II, President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, and last year's choice, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. president, Adolf Hitler, Ayatollah Khomeini, Mahatma Gandhi and Pope Francis, along with groups like the "Ebola fighters." The title was changed in 1982 to "Machine of the Year" for the computer. Its choices have included nearly every U.S.
The magazine has been selecting the year's most influential person, group or idea since 1927. Speaking on the show via phone, Trump called the title a "very, very great honor." The announcement was revealed on NBC's "Today" show. Donald Trump is TIME's Person of the Year 2016 #TIMEPOY /N8BtqTu9Nl- TIME December 7, 2016