Biden/Harris Named Time Magazine’s “Person Of The Year”, Trump Labeled “Loser Of The Year”

Donald Trump has been branded “loser of the year” by one of Europe’s biggest news magazines.

Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s most widely read German-language news websites, published a long article in German about the president under the headline “Der Verlierer des Jahres,” which translates as “The Loser of the Year.”

The article, published on Thursday, criticised the president for refusing to concede the election to Biden and described him as “a man who … was never concerned with the common good, but always with one thing – himself.”

“Nothing is normal under Trump,” the article, written by the publication’s Washington bureau chief and a Berlin-based correspondent, said.

“He refuses to admit defeat. Instead, he speaks of massive electoral fraud, although there is no evidence for it. The whole thing is not surprising. Trump’s presidency ends as it began. Without decency and without dignity.”

And, rubbing salt in this wound, Time Magazine has named Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as “Person of the Year” for 2020.

The magazine announced the shortlist of candidates Thursday morning and unveiled the winner late Thursday night. 

Joe Biden, President Donald Trump, frontline health care workers and Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the racial justice movement were Time’s shortlist candidates. 

Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal wrote that this year’s selection was the first time a president-elect and vice president-elect appeared on a Person of the Year cover. Biden is also the oldest person to have been selected.

“For changing the American story, for showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division, for sharing a vision of healing in a grieving world, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are TIME’s 2020 Person of the Year,” Felsenthal wrote.

Time’s choice to name Biden and Harris over Trump “seemed calculated more to twist the knife in President Trump than anything else – avowedly anti-Trump musician Bruce Springsteen was selected to deliver the news,” said RT News.

Many liberals celebrated the selection of Biden and Harris as a way to mock President Trump. 

TRUMP LOST AGAIN. #Timepoy https://t.co/TtZ5g0HoxS

— Kosoko “PREORDER YESTERDAY IS HISTORY” Jackson (@KosokoJackson) December 11, 2020

However, not everyone was pleased with the selection. One Twitter user said, “I am disappointed that Biden and Harris are #TimePOY. In a year when we learned how important doctors, nurses, grocers, postal workers, and other every day, ordinary, but utterly essential workers are, it seems odd to pick arguably the two more powerful and famous people on earth.” 

I think in any other year I’d say yea, fair dos. But this year, damn did we learn who our society can function with and who it can’t, and picking two politicians just feels tone-deaf #TimePOY

— Skylar Baker-Jordan (@SkylarJordan) December 11, 2020

In the past, Time has selected controversial figures for “Person of the Year.”

In 1938, Time selected Adolf Hitler as “Man of the Year”.

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was chosen in 1939 and 1942.

President Trump was named in 2016. 

And, of course, Time nominated Greta Thunberg in 2019. 

While Trump and frontline health care workers were on the battlefield protecting the nation from COVID-19 – what exactly did Biden and Harris do to deserve Time’s “Person of the Year”, rather than ‘save our democracy.’