Donald Trump, who will become President on January 20, 2025, has been named Time‘s Person of the Year for 2024.
Time explained why he was chosen, despite being such a divisive figure. They wrote, “the individual who, for better or for worse, did the most to shape the world and the headlines over the past 12 months. In many years, that choice is a difficult one. In 2024, it was not.”
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“Since he began running for President in 2015, perhaps no single individual has played a larger role in changing the course of politics and history than Trump,” they continued. “On the cusp of his second presidency, all of us—from his most fanatical supporters to his most fervent critics—are living in the Age of Trump.”
“He won by enlarging his base, seizing the frustration over rising prices and benefiting from a global turn against incumbents. With those tailwinds, exit polls suggest that he won the largest percentage of Black Americans for a Republican since Gerald Ford and the most Latino voters of any GOP nominee since George W. Bush,” they continued.
They concluded, “For marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a-generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world, Donald Trump is TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year.”
They also sat with him and did an interview. See the highlights.
On his first act as President being to pardon most of the January 6 rioters: “It’s going to start in the first hour. Maybe the first nine minutes.”
On if he’ll use the military to help deport immigrants: “It doesn’t stop the military if it’s an invasion of our country,” he said. “Pressed on how he would respond if the military refuses to carry out those orders,” he then said, “I’ll only do what the law allows, but I will go up to the maximum level of what the law allows.”
On if he’ll separate children who were born in the USA from parents who might not have citizenship: “I don’t believe we’ll have to, because we will send the whole family back. I would much rather deport them together.”
On if he’s going to restrict access to abortion pills: “It’s always been my commitment.”
For more, visit Time.com.
