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Donald Trump named Time Magazine's Person of the Year

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 8 Dec 2016, 6:15AM
Donald Trump has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year (Supplied).

Donald Trump named Time Magazine's Person of the Year

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 8 Dec 2016, 6:15AM

Donald Trump's been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year.

Editor-at-large Karl Vick told Rachel Smalley it's not designed as an accolade or an honour.

"It's meant as a recognition of the person who had the greatest impact or influence over events for that year - for better or worse, good or ill. We always put that in."

Mr Vick said this year it was hard to make a winning case for anyone else.

"He not only was elected President but in the process he destroyed, or took apart as they stood, not one but two political parties. He rewrote the rules of what you could do in a campaign, what you could say in a campaign."

The Queen, Joseph Stalin, the Pope, Adolf Hitler, Martin Luther King and Marc Zuckerberg have all been named person of the year in the past.

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