Donald Trump TIME Person of the Year: How We Picked - 34 views
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Bryan Pregon on 07 Dec 16"It's hard to measure the scale of his disruption. Now surveys the smoking ruin of a vast political edifice that once housed parties, pundits, donors, pollsters, all those who did not see him coming or take him seriously. Out of this reckoning, Trump is poised to preside, for better or worse."
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nate kliegl on 07 Dec 16I don't feel like he disrupted anything and I feel like he's sticking to his ideas that will try to succeed America
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Landon Mohr on 07 Dec 16I believe that Donald Trump was the right choice for time magazine. Everyone has their point of view on him whether it is good or bad. I think that he will actually do good things for this country when he gets elected. He is on the cover of time magazine because they thought he had the greatest influence.
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hmiller403 on 07 Dec 16I feel like it was the right choice because in the very first paragraph time says "This is the 90th time we have named the person who had the greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the year." Not saying he has done amazing or horrible things he has had the greatest influence on people and I agree on that.
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mitchell_johnson on 07 Dec 16I agree with Landon, Donald Trump deserved to be named person of the year because set his plan to become president and "To Make America Great Again". His ideas may hurt our relationships with other countries, but he is focused to help our country first.
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mckenzie spanjer on 07 Dec 16I also believe that Trump hasn't done anything wrong, and he will try to help our country to the best of his ability.
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savannah131999 on 07 Dec 16I would agree with Times choice to pick Trump because as it was stated at the very beginning of the article they named the person with the greatest influence.. For better or worse. Which I would agree with, whether or not you agree with Trump or you believe to deserves Presidency or not, he was one of the top influencers in 2016. You couldn't watch the news without hearing about him. He was very impactful in politics and news in the past year. So whether or not you support him he was one of the most influential people in the last year.
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bayleefox1 on 07 Dec 16I would agree Trump should get this. He won it because of the hard fought presidential campaign. He got made fun of etc.
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Deven Przybylski on 07 Dec 16I'm not surprised that he won the person of the year, but I don't believe he deserves it.
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agrosas on 07 Dec 16I have to say that I any happy that Trump did became President, he should the people to not think so lightly of him. He will do good for our country.
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gracie1bradley on 12 Dec 16Everybody has their view on who he is and what he is going to do. Although I don't agree that he should be on TIME person of the year, because there are others who deserve it just as much as him.
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delaniehubbard on 12 Dec 16I think him becoming "person of the year" is a little risky because Donald Trump really hasn't shown us, Americans, what his in capable of yet. Obviously he was capable of becoming president of the United States but what if were unsatisfied with his decisions in the upcoming year? Will Time Magazine regret making him person of the year?
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zayned on 12 Dec 16Not surprised he won person of the year, I do think we had better options and many people would agree that other would deserve this more than trump.
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sydney matheny on 12 Dec 16I think he shouldn't have gotten "person of the year" because of what he said towards women and people of color. But other people may have think he deserved it. It's just a different opinion, but I wonder how this whole thing will turn out.
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Matthew E on 12 Dec 16Just in general there are many apposing factors about Trump, good ones are him being president and is going to help out communities and so on. Bad ones are Trump ends up being racist and sexist.In my personal opinion, there are many more apposing factors of bad and he is just a terrible person. But many can argue.
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dallastomasello on 12 Dec 16Trump shouldn't have gotten person of the year. What he says about women and people of color and the way he treats them. That's not what the person of the year should be doing. Some people are for Trump and that's okay because that's their opinion. He'll be able to help out communities but many are against him for being racist and sexist. In my opinion he is a terrible person.
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brettday on 12 Dec 16Trump is the first president without government or military background to go with them. It's a new feeling in the office that some agree with and some don't.
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Bradley Daugherty on 12 Dec 16I think that whoever won the election would have won person of the year. Trump won the election and ended up winning the person of the year because he was influential, probably talked about the most and while he was supposed to fall out of the presidential race early on, he eventually won the presidency.
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madishovan on 12 Dec 16i agree with matthew trumps just terrible person.
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kim bagshaw on 12 Dec 16I feel like people are so focused on who he is as a person and now who he can become, we can't change the fact that he is president whoever we can accept it.
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jwells549 on 12 Dec 16I really hope Donald can do good things for this country. I hope and wish that he will take back the bad and cruel things he has said about women, disabled people, people of color, etc,. I want him to keep his promises in making this country better. But I know he won't. I can't read his mind or read the future but from the looks of it, this can not turn out well. He should not have been chosen for people of the year. A great person, who is open-minded, strong and brave, accepting, a hero even, would make person of the year. But, instead, we all chose a sexist and racist man who has been elected for president. Cool.
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ebouvier878 on 12 Dec 16I agree with their decision to make him the person of the year because he deserved it and people all over the country were influenced by him in either a good or a bad way.
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Alex Thacker on 12 Dec 16I'm not surprised he was picked as person of the year
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ogomez1025 on 12 Dec 16I think that although many people think that it is not apt to be president but has many skills in the part of negotiating and thinking about whether it is a good investment or bad, it should give the opportunity to experience its way of working and if it gives the quality Appropriate to accept it because everything must be for the good of the country and of the people. And truly being president is very difficult and with a lot of organization and choose good decisions .
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mwheeler21 on 12 Dec 16Although I don't agree with how Trump spends his existence in this world I do think that it is appropriate to name him person of the year. The article said that he wasn't necessarily given the title because he has done good. I think this is a good title for him because a lot of 2016 attention has fallen on him, he has impacted a majority of America and weather he makes people happy or unhappy they were still giving him a reaction, so yes I think it is appropriate to name Donald Trump person of the year.
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amonge914 on 12 Dec 16When you first see that Donald Trump was named person of the year by TIME it really makes you wonder. After reading this article though it did answer many questions for me. For example, why? According to time it's not about being the best person it's more of who made a greater impact (good or bad). Which he did. He went from a casino owning business man, to President Elect Trump-- doing everything in his hands to influence the people of America to think in a pretty white way if you ask me. Either way, this was a good article it really did answer many questions I had. I bet this was the first time they voted someone person of the year by starting off-- hey it's not that we are on his side, but he made a big splash this year and we wrote on him.
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Mallori Wagoner on 12 Dec 16I don't think he should be the person of the year because even though he says he is going to do good things and has done some good things he has also done very bad things and said things about people.