Donald Trump wins 2024 Person of the Year: List of Time Magazine's past winners
Time Magazine is expected to name President-elect Donald Trump as its 2024 ‘Person of the Year’ an honor he had as well after his 2016 victory.
President-elect Donald Trump will be returning to the White House for a second time after he is sworn in on January 25, 2025, as the 47th US president. He will also be gracing the cover of Time Magazine as its 2024 ‘Person of the Year’, an honor he had after his 2016 victory making him the 45th US president.
Trump is the first US president to return to the White House after losing a previous presidential race since Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd and 24th US president, in the late 1800s. His electoral victory capped off an incredible political comeback since the tumultuous end of his first term.
🚨 BREAKING: Trump will be named TIME "Person of the Year" tomorrow morning, will celebrate by ringing the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange - POLITICO
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 11, 2024
Trump was also person of the year in 2016: pic.twitter.com/Q6yKbqDXBX
He defeated Vice President Kamala Harris 312 to 226 in the Electoral College and won the popular vote for the first time. He will return to office with both chambers of the US Congress in Republican control and a US Supreme Court with a conservative majority.
He will reportedly ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning to celebrate the official reveal of the Time Magazine cover.
Time Magazine’s past winners
Time magazine has been awarding this honor since 1927, recognising individuals, groups, or ideas that have had a significant impact on the world during the year.
2023: Taylor Swift
2022: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
2021: Elon Musk
2020: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
2019: Greta Thunberg
2018: Jamal Khashoggi, the Capital Gazette, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone, and Kyaw Soe Oo (Journalists as "The Guardians")
2017: The Silence Breakers (representing those who spoke out against sexual harassment)
2016: Donald Trump
2015: Angela Merkel
2014: Ebola Fighters (representing healthcare workers fighting the Ebola virus)
The 2024 shortlist included Benjamin Netanyahu, Claudia Sheinbaum, Elon Musk, Jerome Powell, Joe Rogan, Kamala Harris, Kate Middleton, Mark Zuckerberg, Yulia Navalnaya.
Since 1927, TIME has named a person, group, or concept that had the biggest impact—for good or ill—on the world. See the shortlist for TIME's Person of the Year 2024: https://t.co/SzNi7g5aJn
— TIME (@TIME) December 9, 2024
The award is chosen for the person who had the most impact on the year and is not a popularity contest; previous winners includes Adolf Hitler in 1938 and Josef Stalin the following year.
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