Trump named as Time magazine's person of the year

US President-elect Donald Trump was named by Time magazine as its Person of the Year 2016 for his stunning upset victory in the US Presidential election.Time said after campaigning as an anti-establishment, populist candidate, 70-year-old Trump was elected the 45th President of the US, a stunning end to a presidential bid that repeatedly broke with political precedent. 

The first runner-up for Person of the Year is Trump's rival in the presidential elections and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and the second runner-up are online hackers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the 11 candidates shortlisted by Time for its annual honour.

Trump told a news channel that it is a great honour,



after Time announced him as Person of the Year. Meanwhile, Mr. Modi won the online readers' poll conducted by Time magazine for Person of the Year 2016, the second time he emerged winner of the reader's choice poll.

The other contenders were US gymnast Simone Biles, CRISPR Scientists who developed a groundbreaking new technology that can edit DNA, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, the Flint Whistleblowers who along with civil-engineering professor Marc Edwards and local pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha blew the whistle on the lead-poisoned water in Flint, Michigan, singer Beyonce, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.