TIME declares President-elect Donald Trump as Person of the Year for 2016

New York, December 8, 2016: The Time magazine named US President-elect Donald Trump as its Person of the Year 2016 on Wednesday due to his influence in the past year "for better or worse."

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Voters elected Donald Trump as the President of the United States in November after a long and divisive campaign. Trump announced his campaign on June 16, 2015, in Trump Tower, Manhattan. He delivered a speech over which he is still receiving criticism as well as praise for the same.

Time Editor-in-Chief Nancy Gibbs said in a video of the announcement, "Every year we choose the person of the year who is the individual who has had the most influence on events, for better or worse. It's hard to argue that anyone had more influence than Donald Trump over the events of this year. But there is a profound argument about whether his influence was for the better or for the worse."

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Gibbs wrote, for those who thought "for the better," Trump's electoral victory "represents a long-overdue rebuke to an entrenched and arrogant governing class."
For those whom thought that his victory is "for the worse," Gibbs wrote, "destruction extends to cherished norms of civility and discourse, a politics poisoned by vile streams of racism, sexism, nativism."

Gibbs added, "A lot of people think that Person of the Year, just because of the nature of the name, is an honor, and certainly there have been years where we have recognized people whose influence has been altogether unassailably worthy."

"Normally that's not the case. I know there are a lot of people who disagree with so much of what Donald Trump said and are very apprehensive about what his presidency means for them and for the country. I think i would challenge them to suggest that someone else this year had more influence and in a way a greater surprise than what he did in 2016."

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Last year, it was German Chancellor Angela Merkel who was named as Person of the Year. She is the first woman to hold the title in decades.

by NewsGram team