As President-elect Donald Trump celebrated being named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2024, MSNBC’s Joy Reid tried to throw cold water on the occasion by pointing out that not everyone who has won the award historically has done so because they made the world a better place. The ReidOut host claimed “we all know” which side Trump is on, and it is the one with “Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Vladimir Putin.”
Reid declared, “Well, today, Donald Trump celebrated securing that distinction for a second time, but to be clear, getting this title is not like winning an Academy Award. It's not like, as actress Sally Field said in 1985 when winning her second Oscar, ‘I can't deny the fact you like me right now, you like me.’”
Instead, “As Time magazine describes it, ‘For 97 years the editors of Time have been picking the person of the year. The individual who, for better or for worse, did the most to shape the world and the headlines over the past 12 months. In many years, that choice is a difficult one. In 2024, it was not.’"
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