12-09-2015, 03:34 PM
(12-09-2015, 03:06 PM)Duchess Wrote: I was so relieved it wasn't Donald.
This was being discussed on the Today Show yesterday and I saw the finalists and thought I'd rather have it be a terrorist over Donald Trump. Jesus.
Trump tweeted this after the Person of the Year announcement:
"I told you @TIME Magazine would never pick me as person of the year despite being the big favorite They picked person who is ruining Germany."
He's something else.Anyway, it's the first time a woman has won the award in 29 years. The other individual women to win were Wallis Simpson (1936), Queen Elizabeth II (1952) and Corazon Aquino (1986).
These were the runner ups for 2015 Person of The Year:
-Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - head of the Islamic State militant group
-Donald Trump - business magnate seeking Republican nomination as US presidential candidate
-Black Lives Matter - activist group campaigning against violence towards black people, notably in the US
-Hassan Rouhani - president of Iran since 2013
-Travis Kalanick - US entrepreneur, founder of the Uber transportation network firm
-Caitlyn Jenner - born Bruce Jenner, became 1976 Olympic decathlon champion, officially changed name and gender in 2015
Ref: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35048796