President-elect Donald Trump will be Time Magazine’s 2024 Person of the Year, beating out Vice President Kamala Harris and eight other people on the finalist shortlist.
Mr. Trump will be given the designation, handed out since 1927, for the second time after having previously been named the 2016 Person of the Year, three anonymous sources told Politico.
Time will announce the winner Thursday, and Mr. Trump will ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange to honor the magazine’s cover.
The other members of the Time shortlist are Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Kate Middleton the Princess of Wales, X CEO Elon Musk, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, podcaster Joe Rogan and Russian economist Yulia Navalnaya, who is the widow of dissident Alexei Navalny.
Mr. Musk was Time’s 2021 Person of the Year, and Mr. Zuckerberg was Time’s 2010 Person of the Year.
Mr. Trump will join Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Harry Truman, George W. Bush, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in having been twice named Time’s Person of the Year.
President Franklin Roosevelt was named Person of the Year three times. President Dwight Eisenhower was named Person of the Year once while in office and once as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II.
Presidents Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy and George H.W. Bush were all named Person of the Year once, while President Joseph Biden was jointly given the designation along with Vice President Kamala Harris in 2020.
• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.
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