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Walleye

(38,391 posts)
3. Trump will have to rent a whole new high-rise to store all the copies of time magazine he will buy with his picture
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 08:06 AM
Dec 12

newdeal2

(1,896 posts)
7. One copy must be prominently displayed in each household and school
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 08:50 AM
Dec 12

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.

DeepWinter

(931 posts)
4. I think many know
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 08:15 AM
Dec 12

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

milestogo

(19,727 posts)
9. They should put a pic of him simulating a blow job on the cover
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 09:08 AM
Dec 12

so all the world can see what a piece of garbage the US elected.

LetMyPeopleVote

(159,338 posts)
15. Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 12:59 PM
Dec 12

trump lied in the time interview. Here are some of the fact checks



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.

TIME has published the transcript of that conversation. In addition, below is a review for facts and context of several of Trump’s statements from the interview......

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 Much of that construction was built to replace “dilapidated and outdated designs.”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 there’s disagreement over whether an effective border strategy should translate to a high apprehension rate or a low one. ICE arrests increased during Trump’s 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 Biden’s term began in the spring of 2020, during Trump’s 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.
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