It was the easiest choice in my lifetime, which goes back to 1971. There is absolutely no debate whatsoever to be had.
Never in the last 45 years has one individual person so dominated public discourse in a particular year.
I wonder if TIME basically has to set up their answering machines or auto-email replies to ward off the tsunami of messages:
*"We anticipate heavy criticism of this decision. We want to reiterate and clarify, again, that the selection of Person of the Year does not necessarily mean that that person is a **good *person, but rather, that the person had a major influence on the world."
I still stand by my contention that Rupert Murdoch had more of an influence on the world, as his media empire for decades has been based on perniciously stoking low information outrage across the globe, which led to both the Brexit vote and the election of Trump.
Yeah, I knew when I saw the short list that fucker would end up on the cover. I was hoping for someone else simply because I’m sick of media giving that twit more shit to pull his own dick about.
I guess Fidel Castro missed the deadline for making the list.
The funny thing is that you think he really cares, whether he tweets something or not.
All Ken Bone wanted to do was go to a nationally televised town hall and ask a boring question about energy policy, and he got 15 minutes of unwanted fame.
This person, who was one of thousands of POTYs two years ago, has said that if he had known his name would generate more than 1 billion hits on Google, would have remained anonymous.
kent brantly person of the year - Google Search (so, there, went hit #1,000,000,001.)
Trump’s comments about this issue didn’t go over well at the time either.
I’ve seen a Photoshopped version of the Time cover depicting Trump sitting on the kind of throne that you flush, with a roll of TP on the wall. 
Assuming he can find it in the first place. :smack:
I’m surprised at how little I’m seeing about it on social media, or at least the SM I’ve been viewing.
What are they going to do as an encore for 2017, after Trump installs himself as God-Emperor of the United States?
I would have chosen Farage. Trump will be gone in a little over 4 years; the events Farage has set in motion will last far longer.
I also assumed that, so, not surprised that it turned out to be true, but thinking about it, it strikes me as slightly odd that it would include reelections… Reagan, Clinton, GW Bush, and Obama in '84, '96, 2004, and 2012 seem way less newsmaking than '80, '92, 2000, and 2008.
I meant the article. I’ve seen the cover photo; it’s clearly a double dunce cap.
The idea is to select “the person who had the greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the year.” Given that, Trump makes more sense than Nigel Farage, although Farage gets mentioned in a separate article on “Europe’s populist revolt”.
Only if you restrict yourself to America. Trump is only President and will be gone in 4 years or so; Farage has initiated the break-up of the Euro, if not the EU.
Your suggestion seems to be that Farage’s actions will have an impact in the future. But the award is about the impact on the news of this year.
Um… has anyone looked closely at the issue’s cover image? Give it a minute. No spoilers until a few people have checked back in, okay?
(It’s not a small, subtle thing. Look at the overall layout.)
They’ve desaturated a lot of the orangeness from his face! :eek:
The cover is accurate. It also would have been accurate to call Trump the President Elect of the United States.
Oh, it’s accurate all right. Even in the details.
Separate thread in IMHO started.