# Time Person of the Year 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 31, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507 "2024-10-31T17:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/21 "2024-12-11T01:48:00Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Why is the Princess of Wales on the shortlist? “Diversity.” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/22 "2024-12-11T02:45:39Z")
And why is Joe Rogan on the list? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/23 "2024-12-11T03:05:13Z")
Because it’s an election year and they were always going to pick the president-elect no matter what, so the rest of the list is of no importance. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/24 "2024-12-11T05:47:17Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > And why is Joe Rogan on the list? Until Harris didn’t appear on his show; I had never heard of him. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/25 "2024-12-11T06:10:54Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I had never heard of him. You never watched NewsRadio? Or Fear Factor? Or any UFC event since 1997? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/26 "2024-12-11T06:12:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You never watched NewsRadio? Or Fear Factor? Or any UFC event since 1997 Correct. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/27 "2024-12-11T06:14:53Z")
I never watched any of those either. And I know enough about them to know they NOT as popular as he thinks they are… ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/28 "2024-12-11T08:07:52Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Why is the Princess of Wales on the shortlist? Cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/29 "2024-12-11T13:52:17Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Why is the Princess of Wales on the shortlist? Everybody’s gotta be somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/30 "2024-12-11T14:05:26Z")
I hope it’s Elon only, with a long article about why he’s the real power behind the throne and Trump would have lost without him. Maybe a nice picture of Trump as a puppet with Elon pulling the strings. That would be fun. But it will just be Trump. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/31 "2024-12-11T19:00:20Z")
It’s [Trump](https://x.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1866915707650445514?s=46&t=KEWgwenxgQmz-pLDK_DMFQ). No shock. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/32 "2024-12-11T20:09:59Z")
Spontaneous revulsion and a persistent case of nausea is okay, though, right? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/33 "2024-12-11T21:40:47Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > It’s [Trump](https://x.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1866915707650445514?s=46&t=KEWgwenxgQmz-pLDK_DMFQ). No shock. That is still just another prediction: not an announcement from Time. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/34 "2024-12-11T21:50:22Z")
CNN is reporting that it will be Trump, although the official announcement is not until tomorrow (12/12). ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/35 "2024-12-12T01:55:45Z")
Oh great, a convicted felon wins. Right at home with fellow winner and racist supreme Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/36 "2024-12-12T05:57:52Z")
Consider the source, however. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/37 "2024-12-12T06:15:35Z")
Time and CNN haven’t been under the same corporate umbrella since 2014, FTR, so CNN doesn’t necessarily have any inside information. It was always going to be the winner of the presidential election, though, because Time seemingly doesn’t even bother trying in election years anymore. When they gave it to Biden in 2020 instead of Fauci or “The Essential Workers”, I realized this. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/38 "2024-12-12T06:48:58Z")
The last time they didn’t choose the presidential election winner was in 1996, when they recognized David Ho for his AIDS research. 2000: George W Bush 2004: George W Bush 2008: Barrack Obama 2012: Barrack Obama 2016: Donald Trump 2020: Joe Biden (shared with Kamala Harris) > **[Time Person of the Year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year)** > > Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year". The editors select the featured subject in a "secretive ... process." The Time website or a partner organization also runs an annual online reader's poll that has no effect on the selection, although no poll was held in Th... ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/39 "2024-12-12T14:35:54Z")
Official now: > **[TIME 2024 Person of the year](https://time.com/7200212/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump/)** > > If what comes next is anything like what he promises, president-elect Donald Trump will reshape the nation and the world. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2024/1009507/40 "2024-12-12T14:39:01Z")
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