Donald Trump Named as TIME’s Person of the Year 2016

Donald-Trump-Named-as-TIME’s-Person-of-the-Year-2016 US President elect Donald Trump was chosen as the TIME’s Person of the Year 2016 on December 7, 2016, for his outstanding victory in the US election. According to the Time magazine’s editors, the Republican president-elect had more global impact, “for better or worse,” than any other individual across the past 12 months. Trump

defeated five other contenders, including his election rival Hillary Clinton, musician Beyonce, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to be named “the person who had the greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the year

Donald Trupms photograph is featured on the Time cover and reads, “Donald Trump: President of the Divided States of America”.

The other contenders were for the title were Hillary Clinton, US gymnast Simone Biles, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, the Flint, Michigan Whistleblowers, singer Beyonce, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg among others.

The magazine’s second most person of the year was Mrs. Hiliary Clinton, who is on track to win the popular vote but lost the Electoral College in the presidential election to Trump.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 4, 2016, won the online reader’s poll for TIME Person of the Year 2016, defeating other world leaders like Donald Trump, incumbent US leader Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

Last year the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was listed as the Person of the Year while US President Barack Obama, was named in 2008 when he was president-elect and then again in 2012.

About TIME Person of the Year

TIME, in every December, names the person who had greatly impacted, for better or worse, throughout the entire year. The Person of the Year is picked by Time editors from among world leaders, artists, corporate czars and organizations.