Trump named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year

US president-elect Donald Trump has been named TIME Magazine’s Person of Year for 2016. The title is given to the person who, ‘for better or worse’ had the greatest influence on the year’s events.

The property magnate, who beat favourite Hillary Clinton to the White House last November, was selected from a short-list of 11 influential individuals including Nigel Farage, Vladimir Putin, and Beyonce. Hillary Clinton came in second.

Trump, speaking to NBC shortly after the announcement said it was a “great honour” which “meant a lot to him”.

Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States in mid-January.

“It’s hard to measure the scale of his disruption. This real estate baron and casino owner turned reality-TV star and provocateur—never a day spent in public office, never a debt owed to any interest besides his own—now surveys the smoking ruin of a vast political edifice that once housed parties, pundits, donors, pollsters, all those who did not see him coming or take him seriously,” read the announcement on TIME’s website. 

Past winners include Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.