NEW YORK: US President-elect Donald Trump was today named by Time magazine as its Person of the Year 2016 for his stunning upset victory in the presidential election.
“It’s a great honour. It means a lot. I have grown up reading Time magazine, it’s a very important magazine. It is a tremendous honor, I am lucky to be on the cover of Time in the past,” Trump told NBC’s news program Today minutes after Time announced the next US President was Person of the Year 2016.
Time said after campaigning as an anti-establishment, populist candidate, 70-year-old Trump was elected the 45th President of the US — a stunning end to a presidential bid that repeatedly broke with political precedent.
The first runner-up for Person of the Year is Trump’s rival in the presidential elections and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and the second runner-up are online hackers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the 11 candidates shortlisted by Time for its annual honour. (AGENCIES)
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