As President-elect Donald Trump celebrated being named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2024, MSNBC’s Joy Reid tried to throw cold water on the occasion by pointing out that not everyone who has won the award historically has done so because they made the world a better place. The ReidOut host claimed “we all know” which side Trump is on, and it is the one with “Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Vladimir Putin.”
Reid declared, “Well, today, Donald Trump celebrated securing that distinction for a second time, but to be clear, getting this title is not like winning an Academy Award. It's not like, as actress Sally Field said in 1985 when winning her second Oscar, ‘I can't deny the fact you like me right now, you like me.’”
Instead, “As Time magazine describes it, ‘For 97 years the editors of Time have been picking the person of the year. The individual who, for better or for worse, did the most to shape the world and the headlines over the past 12 months. In many years, that choice is a difficult one. In 2024, it was not.’"
Reid continued, “The key line, ‘for better or for worse,' is not much of a ringing endorsement, and we all know which one Trump falls under, and let's remember who else has been given this title in years past in the same category: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Vladimir Putin. In fact, Stalin won the distinction twice, just like Trump.”
Every U.S. president going back to Franklin Roosevelt has won the award, and, not including Trump, eight of them have won it at least twice, but Reid didn’t compare him to Barack Obama or even Richard Nixon; she compared him to dictators, mass murderers, and people who, in a just world, would be spending the rest of their life at The Hague because The ReidOut host cannot do level-headed analysis; she can only freak out and compare Trump to
Here is a transcript for the December 12 show:
MSNBC The ReidOut
12/12/2024
7:01 PM ET
JOY REID: Well, today, Donald Trump celebrated securing that distinction for a second time, but to be clear, getting this title is not like winning an Academy Award. It's not like, as actress Sally Field said in 1985 when winning her second Oscar, “I can't deny the fact you like me right now, you like me.”
No. As Time magazine describes it, "For 97 years the editors of Time have been picking the person of the year. The individual who, for better or for worse, did the most to shape the world and the headlines over the past 12 months. In many years, that choice is a difficult one. In 2024, it was not."
The key line ‘for better or for worse’ is not much of a ringing endorsement, and we all know which one Trump falls under, and let's remember who else has been given this title in years past in the same category: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Vladimir Putin. In fact, Stalin won the distinction twice, just like Trump.
