Time will name its Person of the Year on Thursday and President-elect Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. said that the incoming president will be this year’s recipient.
Posted on X on Wednesday, Trump Jr. said, “Trump wins Time Person of The Year and Chris Wray announces he’s out of the FBI on the same day,” and added, “Are you sick of all the winning yet?”
2024 marks the seventh consecutive time the winner of the presidential election also was named Person of the Year. Trump was named Person of the Year in 2016 after his win in that year’s election. Since Jimmy Carter, every president has been Person of the Year at least once. Gerald Ford was the last U.S. president to never be named Person of the Year.
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The 2023 winner was pop musician Taylor Swift.
Earlier this week, Time announced the shortlist of finalists. The list includes Kamala Harris, Kate Middleton, Elon Musk, Yulia Navalnaya, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerome Powell, Joe Rogan, Claudia Sheinbaum and Mark Zuckerberg.
Trump was a finalist for the designation in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
“Since 1927, TIME has named a person, group, or concept that had the biggest impact—for good or for ill—on the world over the previous 12 months,” Time said.
While the designation has generally been seen as an honor, many controversial figures have been named Person of the Year, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Putin.