President-elect Donald Trump is Time magazine’s 2024 ‘Person of the Year’.

The magazine made its annual announcement early Thursday after releasing its shortlist on Monday.

To celebrate the occasion, the president-elect headed to Wall Street to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday morning. 

This is the second time the 78-year-old is being named Person of the Year after he also received the title in 2016 after his first presidential election victory.

It comes after Trump dominated headlines this year with his third bid for the White House and decisive win last month.

The president-elect also survived a close assassination attempt in July and became the first U.S. president convicted of a crime in May.

The magazine has been naming a person, group or concept each year since 1927 that had the ‘biggest impact—for good or for ill—on the world over the previous 12 months.’ 

The magazine made its annual announcement early Thursday after releasing its shortlist on Monday

President-elect Donald Trump is Time magazine’s 2024 Person of the Year – and he’s heading to the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening bell on Thursday morning

President-elect Donald Trump walks the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Trump said in his interview that his astounding victory was due to hitting the ‘nerve of the country… the country was angry’. 

He claimed the country was angry over immigration and argued the border, not the economy, was actually the biggest issue of the election. 

Time lauded Trump’s ‘political rebirth’ after his last term ‘ended in disgrace’ and he was ‘shunned by most party officials’.

‘On the cusp of his second presidency, all of us—from his most fanatical supporters to his most fervent critics—are living in the Age of Trump,’ wrote Time Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs.

‘[He] has remade American politics in the process. He won by enlarging his base, seizing the frustration over rising prices and benefiting from a global turn against incumbents,’ Jacobs continued.

Trump raising his fist after ringing the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on December 12

In the wide-ranging interview with Trump conducted on November 25, the president-elect touched on January 6 attack, immigration and abortion.

Trump said one of his first acts will be to pardon rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in 2021 to try to stop the certification of the election results.

‘It’s going to start in the first hour,’ Trump told Time. ‘Maybe the first nine minutes.’

Asked whether the Justice Department in his administration would target his U.S. political adversaries, Trump said the decision would be left up to the incoming attorney general Pam Bondi if she’s confirmed.

The president-elect also signaled he’s willing to use the military to round up immigrants living illegally in the U.S. arguing the law ‘doesn’t stop the military if it’s an invasion of our country’ but claiming he would only ‘go up to the maximum level of what the law allows.’  

Also in the interview, Trump recommitted to making sure the FDA does not strip states the ability to access abortion pills after some waffling that it was ‘very unlikely.’

Separately, he entertained the debunked claim linking vaccinations to autism and suggested some vaccines could be eliminated ‘if I think it’s dangerous.’

Trump was joined at the NYSE Thursday morning by wife Melania and daughters Tiffany and Ivanka. Vice President-elect JD Vance was also in attendance

Earlier this week, Time released its shortlist of potential candidates which included Trump and nine others. 

Kamala Harris, Elon Musk, Princess Kate Middleton, Jerome Powell, Claudia Sheinbaum, Yulia Navalnaya, Joe Rogan, Benjamin Netanyahu and Mark Zuckerberg were also in consideration for the title. 

Trump joins thirteen other US presidents who have been named Person of the Year including most recently President Biden who received the title in 2020.

Seven of those presidents besides Trump have been named Time’s Person of the Year more than once. 

Leading up to the big unveiling, Time has released a series of other titles for different categories. 

Singer Elton John was named Time’s Icon of the Year, the WNBA’s Caitlin Clark was named Athlete of the Year, and Lisa Su of Advanced Micro Devices was named CEO of the Year.

Last year, megastar Taylor Swift was named 2023 Person of the Year in the middle of her global Eras tour and the release of another smash hit album. She posed on the cover of the magazine with her cat.

To celebrate the occasion, the president-elect is headed to Wall Street to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday morning

An iconic image of Trump from July 13, only moments after surviving an assassination attempt at his campaign rally in Butler, PA

Trump on the cover of Time in 2016 after being named that year’s Person of the Year

Trump on the cover of Time magazine earlier this year for an article about his third White House bid in May

Trump has long obsessed over being on the cover of Time magazine and has weighed in on Person of the Year in the past.

It 2017, he wrote in a post that the magazine called to say he would ‘probably’ be Person of the Year but he ‘took a pass’. Time magazine disputed his claim as ‘incorrect’.

A framed copy of Time magazine featuring Trump dated from 2009 that was hung up in at least five of President Trump’s clubs was fake, The Washington Post also reported in 2017.

In a series of posts over the years Trump has celebrated making the cover of Time on some occasions while blasting the magazine for its coverage in others.

In 2012, Trump argued Time had lost all its credibility when it did not include him in its Top 100 most influential people. 

More recently besides Swift, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, ‘The Spirit of Ukraine’, and Elon Musk all received the title. 

With the magazine approaching its 100th year giving out the title, it has named a series of US. and global leaders, entertainers, scientists and movements as Person of the Year. 

While the title has gone to US presidents, celebrated entertainers and dignitaries from Presidents Obama and Reagan to Queen Elizabeth, not all Persons of the Year have received the title for positive coverage.

Adolf Hitler received the title in 1938, and Joseph Stalin also was named twice by the magazine.

The US president to receive the title the most to date was President Franklin Roosevelt who was named Person (then-Man) of the Year in 1932, 1934 and 1941.