Time has named President-elect Donald Trump its 2016 Person of the Year.
Time’s managing editor, Nancy Gibbs revealed the choice on the Today Show, Wednesday. “I don’t think that we have ever seen one person operating in such an unconventional way have an impact on events of the year quite like this,” said Gibbs.
Explaining the choice on Time.com Gibbs wrote, “It’s hard to measure the scale of his disruption. This real estate baron and casino owner turned reality-TV star and provocateur—never a day spent in public office, never a debt owed to any interest besides his own—now surveys the smoking ruin of a vast political edifice that once housed parties, pundits, donors, pollsters, all those who did not see him coming or take him seriously. Out of this reckoning, Trump is poised to preside, for better or worse.”
The magazine’s cover described Tump as “President of the divided states of America” which Trump responded to as “snarky” although he did describe the choice as “… a very, very great honor.”
Last year’s winner was German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the first individual woman to be chosen as Person of the Year since 1986.
