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Time Editor Says Trump as Person of the Year Was ‘Not’ a Difficult Choice

It’s a Man’s, Man’s World for the president-elect.

TIME magazine has come out and admitted that it wasn’t exactly difficult to choose 2024’s Person of the Year. Explaining the (obvious) choice, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Sam Jacobs, wrote: “On the cusp of his second presidency, all of us—from his most fanatical supporters to his most fervent critics—are living in the Age of Trump.” Jacobs’ introduction accompanies an interview with the president-elect along with photographs, among them an iconic shot of Trump kissing the flag of the United States. Just in case anybody was wondering, Jacobs, a former Daily Beast editor, said Trump was picked “for marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a-­generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world.” What was surprising, however, was some of Trump’s music choices mentioned in the article. They included Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” ABBA’s “The Winner Takes It All,” and James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s Man’s, Man’s World.” Come to think of it, reading the titles, maybe not such a surprise, after all.

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