On Thursday, NBC’s Today engaged in their annual ritual of announcing Time magazine’s “Person of the Year,” which was (zero surprise) Donald Trump. Time tends to defer to whoever won the presidential campaign as the year’s most influential newsmaker, but they don’t have to be happy about it.
NBC host Savannah Guthrie announced that “for better or worse,” Time has picked Persons of the Year, and then editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs also said “for better or for worse, [he] had the most influence on the news in 2024.”
“This is someone who made an historic comeback, who reshaped the American presidency and who’s reordering American politics,” Jacobs said. “It’s hard to argue with the fact that the person who’s moving into the Oval Office is the most influential person in news.”
Jacobs also claimed they spent more time with Trump than any other…
