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It's no surprise that Time chose Donald Trump as "Person of the Year"

 It's no surprise that Time chose Donald Trump as "Person of the Year"

It's no surprise that Time chose Donald Trump as "Person of the Year"


Time magazine named the "Person of the Year" on Wednesday, the most influential personality in the world during the year. In 2016, Donald Trump received the title: a choice discussed and yet very predictable.


As every year, the American magazine Time designated Wednesday, December 7 its “Person of the Year”, the “most influential” man or woman in the world. The recipient's name is Donald Trump, President-elect of the United States.


Why Trump? Because that title every year goes to "the person or people who most affected events and our lives, for good or bad, and embodied what was important about that year, for better or better. for the worse, "as the title's editor, Walter Isaacson, defined it in 1998.


So here it is: the real estate tycoon, the businessman is the one who has most shocked, marked, impressed, convinced this year. He was at the center of many conversations, the media taking offense or laughing at his outings, convinced that such a character would never be elected. However, on November 8, 2016, despite a remarkable accumulation of racist, provocative and rude comments, he emerged victorious in the race for the White House.


In the world, once again, this nomination of Trump as "Person of the Year" has sometimes shocked, sometimes delighted.


On the discontented side, we think that crowning the elected president in this way amounts to giving him even more credit, to flatter his ego. And many people would have deserved this title for much more positive reasons: in the shortlist of nominees alone, we find gymnast Simone Biles, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, the whistleblowers having warned the world of water poisoned in Flint, Michigan, Beyoncé Knowles, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...


Donald Trump got person of the year ?! Is that a joke? Like there are millions of people that actually did something beneficial for the world


Donald Trump is the personality of the year? Is this a joke? As if there weren't millions of people who really brought something good to the world "


Donald Trump himself told Today magazine to be flattered by this appointment. But when you look at The Times' charts over the past few decades, it's hardly anything to be proud of.


An emblematic title, but not flattering

Nancy Gibbs, editor-in-chief of Time, is well aware of this: “Being personality of the year is not necessarily an honor,” she recalls in a behind-the-scenes video of the award. "Some years we have hailed positive influences. But in general that is not the case."


"Being the personality of the year is not necessarily an honor"



And there are plenty of examples of controversial “personalities of the year”: since the award was created in 1927, Time magazine has crowned Adolf Hitler (in 1938), Joseph Stalin (in 1939 and 1942). In the list of 90 personalities chosen since 1927, it is difficult to find one who was not controversial in her time.


Donald Trump is a divisive character. And if this characteristic is usually the consequence of a strong influence on the world, for Donald Trump it is the very reason for his nomination as "Person of the Year" 2016: "What did we choose this year: for better or for worse The challenge with Donald Trump is to see how the country is divided on the answer, "explains Nancy Gibbs. "For reminding America that demagoguery feeds on despair, that truth is only powerful in the mouths of those we trust, [...] for having built the political culture of tomorrow by atomizing yesterday's, Donald Trump is the 'Person of the Year'. "


A trivial title for an elected American president

Another clue that should have made this designation a formality: the personality of the year is very often the elected American president, if there was an election that year. As Mashable points out, all American presidents since 1927 have been entitled to this title, with the exception of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. Most of the time, this title is awarded to them the year of their election. It had to be a first time for Donald Trump, and that year was going pretty well.


Time defended himself, recalling that only half of the election years saw the president elected in November receive the title. Latest counterexample to date: 1996. While Bill Clinton is back for a second term, it is the Sino-American researcher David Ho who is chosen as "Person of the Year" for his scientific work in the fight against AIDS.


Time is not resentful

Only one element could have prevented the nomination of Donald Trump as "Person of the Year": the fact that the real estate mogul has been baiting Time for years. The publication was regularly the favorite target of the businessman, on Twitter as in interviews, even hoping for his death.


"Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people is a joke and a publicity stunt from a magazine that is, like Newsweek, going to die soon. Bad list!"


Well, until the day when ...


Since then, Donald Trump obviously praises the publication every time it mentions it or devotes a page to it. In any case, the changing mood of the elected president did not prevent the journalists of Time from seeing clearly and from choosing, again this year, the personality which will have marked the spirits and the History.


And no, Time did NOT give Donald Trump devil horns for revenge.


It's just an effect that the cover layout gives regularly - 35 times according to Time himself.


Since the "Person of the Year" is often a personality at best controversial, at worst negative, we only have to hope one thing: that Donald Trump does not find himself on the cover again in December 2017.

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