Folks, let's get over this Bull Crap now. We all KNOW who will be the Time Person of the Year.

[MohRokTah]

Trump was a forgone conclusion the moment he announced because RATINGS!

It is CNN Time Warner, after all.

[pintobean]

1. Don't care.

You're just giving them free advertising.

[MohRokTah]

3. My deal is that people are acting like it's some real com[petition when the results were fixed

months ago.

CNN needs the ratings. TIME Warner needs eyes on paper.

Trump is an idiot, but he sells and increases ratings.

Anybody who didn't know this would happen months ago is just fooling themselves.

[JonLeibowitz]

8. Did you make such a forward-looking post before the shortlist was announced?

Your long-held belief would hold a lot more water if you could kindly link to a post prior to the shortlist being released. If only fools didn't know months ago it would be Trump, can you kindly link to prove that you are not one?

[MohRokTah]

4. Did you read the post?

[LonePirate]

5. Trump is not "winning" this title. It will be someone else.

I'm going with global climate scientists as the winners; but Putin or ISIS might be selected.

[MohRokTah]

7. It'll be Trump.

Anybody else wouldn't amount to half the sales and ratings.

Trump is a slow motion train wreck and the general populace cannot keep their eyes off him.

This is all about sales and ratings. Nothing more.

[Rex]

9. Sadly I have to agree with you.

That is America for you.

[alfredo]

10. Time's person of the year, picks the person that had the most impact.

The impact doesn't have to be a positive impact. Bernie has had a positive impact, but Trump has had a negative impact. Which one was more consequential?


Chiang Kai-shek, Hitler, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ronald Reagan, and Stalin won the honors.

[MohRokTah]

11. CNN Time Warner is a business. They will pick the person that will have the most impact...

on ratings and sales.

[alfredo]

14. True

[EL34x4]

12. Honestly, I can't imagine it would be anyone else.

For better or for worse, Donald Trump has dominated the media this year and very much disrupted the GOP's plans to coronate Jeb Bush. Nobody on either side of the aisle expected we would still be talking about him in December. I can't think of anyone who has been more newsworthy.

[99th_Monkey]

13. ABS

Anyone But Sanders

[Gothmog]

15. That has been clear for some time now

[Bluenorthwest]

16. It won't be Sanders or Trump. It's never gone to a candidate.

So that's my guess.

[randome]

17. Paris.

Both for Charlie Hebdo and the latest attack. More specifically, how they dealt with the attacks -with style.
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[Bluenorthwest]

18. I agree that is a very likely choice.

nt

[Bucky]

20. You're probably right, but for that Time is definitely wrong

It's Isis/Isil's leader with the very fake name of "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi". Trump is a side effect of this nutcase's victories. I'll have to look up his real name, but he ain't no "Abu Bakr"

[bklyncowgirl]

19. I'm thinking Al Baghdadi. They'll go to the dark side.

Kaitlin Jenner's up for it too.