ABC News(NEW YORK) — President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday it was “a tremendous honor” to have been chosen as Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.”
“It’s a great honor, it means a lot, especially me growing up reading Time magazine,” Trump said Wednesday morning on the Today show. “But to be on the cover of Time magazine as the ‘Person of the Year’ is a tremendous honor.”
The cover of the magazine features Trump with the headline: “President of the Divided States of America.” Trump called the headline “snarky,” though he agreed the country is divided.
Donald Trump is TIME’s Person of the Year 2016 #TIMEPOY https://t.co/5pTGOksevE pic.twitter.com/N8BtqTu9Nl
— TIME (@TIME) December 7, 2016
“I’m not president yet so I didn’t do anything to divide,” Trump said. “I mean there’s a lot of division. And we’re going to put it back together and we’re going to have a country that’s very well healed and we’re going to be a great economic force and we’re going to build up our military and safety and we’re going to do a lot of great things.”
Hillary Clinton earned the No. 2 spot on Time‘s “Person of the Year” list, while “hackers” came in third.
Trump complained last year after German President Angela Merkel was named Time‘s Person of the Year, and said he expected he would never earn the title.
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