TIME has selected German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its 2015 “Person of the Year.”
Runner-up Donald Trump is not a happy camper.
The sour-grapes candidate has badmouthed Merkel and rationalized TIME’s decision twitting tweeting, “I told you @TIME Magazine would never pick me as person of the year despite being the big favorite.”
TIME’s criterion for selecting its Person of the Year is “the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.”
Discussing TIME’s choice, the Daily Caller highlights the German chancellor’s “for good” qualifications for deserving the honor and adds:
The magazine is far less enamored with Trump. “In times of trial and desperation, when institutions fail, insecurity mounts and need arises, even the most enlightened democratic states can turn inward and break against themselves.”
In a story about one of the runners-up — Trump — Time described the billionaire’s presidential bid as something of a “grim bet” for democracy: “The Trump worldview, the us-against-them bravado that has mobilized a sizable share of the nation, has at its core a zero-sum equation. If the only way to alleviate national suffering is to impose it elsewhere — even if the people who must pay reside among us — then that is the price that he believes must be paid.”
In a related story, TIME describes how the sore loser, the man who would be Time’s Person of the Year — and failed –; the man who would be our commander-in-chief — and hope he fails — worries about his hairdo and slinks in fear when the symbol of the United States of America, the venerable Bald Eagle, lunges at his hand during a TIME photo shoot earlier this year.
The eagle’s name, for the record, is Uncle Sam, and he’s 27 years old.
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Making our country great entails much more than having a pretty hairdo, a YUGE mouth, a YUGE ego and a YUGE fortune.
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