Asked to explain his “improbable resurrection” with his 2024 presidential election win, Donald Trump said his campaign, “hit the nerve of the country. The country was angry.”
The president-elect made the comments as part of his Time Person of the Year cover story interview, as Trump receives the prestigious print honor for the second time.
recalled his recent campaign when interviewed by Time magazine on being named its Person of the Year for 2024.
Trump was Time’s Person of the Year in 2016, when he was first elected president of the United States, beating Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
In 2024, he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, which will send him back to the Oval Office for a second non-consecutive term.
Speaking to Time ahead of his White House return, Trump called the final months of his campaign “72 Days of Fury.”
As he prepares to return to the White House for his second and final term, Trump seemed reflective in the interview.
“It’s sad in a way… It will never happen again,” he said.
Trump also reiterated that he will grant pardons to many of those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. “It’s going to start in the first hour,” Trump announced about the pardons. “Maybe the first nine minutes,” he added.
Time editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs said his magazine chose Trump for its latest Person of the Year “for marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a-generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world.”
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