为什么《时代周刊》选中了川普当选年度人物？
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“It's a great honor,” the president-elect said on NBC's “Today” show on Wednesday morning. “It means a lot, and it's a very important magazine, and I've been lucky enough to be on the cover many times this year — and last year. But I consider this a very, very great honor.”
周三，美国当选总统候选人（特朗普）在美国全国广播公司（NBC）播出的《今日秀》中表示：“非常荣幸，这对我意味着很多，这是一本非常重要的杂志，我非常幸运能够在今年和去年多次出现在杂志的封面上。”
时代周刊执行主编Nancy Gibbs解答：
为什么我们选了川普当选年度人物
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Trump has long been obsessed with having his face on the cover of magazines, something that happened more and more often as he won early polls, then Republican primaries, then the nomination, then the presidency. Trump keeps stacks of these magazines in his office and jokes that he doesn’t have time to read all of them because there are so many.
特朗普一直痴迷于登上各大报刊的封面，在他赢得早期选票之时，这种情况发生得越来越频繁，随后是共和党初选，紧接着提名，最后是总统。特朗普把这些杂志堆在办公室，并开玩笑说他没有时间看完所有的杂志，因为实在是太多了。
Although the magazine featured Trump several times on its cover, the magazine passed on naming him “Person of the Year” in 2015. Instead, it selected German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom the magazine credited with opening her nation’s border to hundreds of thousands of refugees and managing Europe's debt crisis.
尽管《时代周刊》经常将特朗普做为封面人物，特朗普也通过了2015年“年度人物”提名。然而，德国总理安格拉•默克尔最后获选。因为她为成千上万的难民开放边境，在处理欧洲债务危机中的表现获得称赞。
“I told you @TIME Magazine would never pick me as person of the year despite being the big favorite. They picked [the] person who is ruining Germany,”he tweeted soon after the news was announced last December.
去年12月消息公布后不久，特朗普就马上在推特上发文称：“我告诉你@TIME杂志永远不会评选我为‘年度人物’，尽管我是大热门。他们选择了那个毁灭德国的人。”
Time managing editor Nancy Gibbs said that the decision this year was easy. The title goes to a newsmaker who has influenced events for better or for worse. This year's finalists included Hillary Clinton, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, United Kingdom Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, singer Beyoncé, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and whistleblowers in Flint, Mich.
《时代周刊》主编南希·吉布斯说今年的评选很简单。这一称号将给一年来最具影响里的人，不管这影响是好的还是坏的。今年年度人物提名者还包括希拉里·克林顿，土耳其总理雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安，英国独立党领袖奈杰尔·法拉奇，歌手碧昂斯，印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪和弗林特揭密者。
以下为节选：美国人民知道川普当选年度人物之后的反应……
#1#
唐纳德•特朗普当获《时代周刊》年度人物，换句话说，叙利亚获选2017年必游之地。
#2#
《时代周刊》年度人物
1938：希特勒
1939：斯大林
2007：普京
2016：特朗普
#3#
恭喜今年《时代周刊》年度人物！
#4#
为《时代周刊》封面P图的人祈祷，这得用一整晚才能把特朗普的脸P白吧！
#5#
向那个把“M”做成像恶魔角的设计师致敬。
特朗普把你关进监狱以后，我们会给你送护理包的！
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