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An adjudicated rapist, 34 count convicted felon.
Sad sad times in America.

Well, consider that Hitler also held that distinction.
Hugin
(35,772 posts)Who only have contempt for life and happiness.
Walleye
(38,391 posts)newdeal2
(1,896 posts)Next to the Trump Bible. I wish I was joking but I think more than half the country would just roll over if he declared that.
Walleye
(38,391 posts)DeepWinter
(931 posts)Time's Person of the Year isn't the Best, Nicest, most Awesome. It's simply who had the most impact.
Thus:
Vladimir Putin (2007)
Yasser Arafat (1993)
Ruhollah Khomeini (1979)
Deng Xiaoping (1978, 1985)
Adolf Hitler (1938
Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942)
So he joins an appropriate list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year
spanone
(138,345 posts)New Breed Leader
(746 posts)Hugin
(35,772 posts)It all amounts to rolling over like a rotten log.
Omnipresent
(6,736 posts)
milestogo
(19,727 posts)so all the world can see what a piece of garbage the US elected.
LetMyPeopleVote
(159,338 posts)mdbl
(5,827 posts)lame54
(37,547 posts)TheBlackAdder
(29,326 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(159,338 posts)trump lied in the time interview. Here are some of the fact checks
Link to tweet
https://time.com/7201574/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-fact-check/
For the 2024 Person of the Year issue, former and future President Donald Trump sat down for a lengthy interview with TIME on Nov. 25 at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.
What Trump Said: "I won it in 2016 on the border, and I fixed the border, and it was really fixed, and they came in, and they just dislodged everything that I did, and it became far worse than it was in 2016."
I had the most secure border we've ever had, and I never had to go to Congress for that.
The Facts: Trump has often asserted that he fixed the border during his first term, at times pointing to his expansion of the border wall. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, there were 450 miles of new primary and secondary border miles constructed on the Southwest border between January 2017 and January 2021. Much of that construction was built to replace dilapidated and outdated designs. About 80 miles of primary and secondary barriers were built where no previous barrier existed.
Apprehension numbers at the border provide another metric, but theres disagreement over whether an effective border strategy should translate to a high apprehension rate or a low one. ICE arrests increased during Trumps previous term, but they did not reach the levels seen under Obama. Southwest border encounters hit a record high last year, but dropped 77% by August 2024. The spike in migrants seen early in Bidens term began in the spring of 2020, during Trumps final year, according to Politifact.
Trump also did appeal to Congress for help with border enforcement. In his first year in office, he addressed the nation about the immigration crisis, calling on Congress to secure the border, and later asked Congress for $4.5 billion in emergency border funding......
What Trump Said: They don't want to see all of this transgender, which is, it's just taken over. And then you take a look, and not very many years after the person who, you know, went through this process is saying, Who did this to me? As you know, it's a very high percentage.
The Facts: A 2021 review of 27 studies involving nearly 8,000 transgender teens and adults who underwent any kind of gender-affirmation surgeries found that an average of 1% expressed regret. In October, a study published in JAMA Pediatrics found that the majority of transgender youths who received gender-affirming medical care such as puberty blockers or hormones are satisfied with their care. Of the 220 youths surveyed, only 4% expressed regret.
mdbl
(5,827 posts)Would be more apropos.