President Trump Or Colin Kaepernick: Who Will Be Time Magazine's Person Of 2018?
The editors preparing to select 2018 Time Magazine’s Person of the Year are set for a tricky choice, if the bookmakers are to be believed.
According to betting prices aggregation website Oddscheckers, the 5-1 favourite is President Trump, followed closely by former NFL footballer Colin Kaepernick (15-2), technology entrepreneur Elon Musk (8-1), Russian president Vladimir Putin (8-1) and China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping (9-1).
Crucially, the official Time Magazine criteria is not a moral judgement but simply the person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year.”
That may be so, but how is this event-influencing to be measured? Trump, whose presidential election clinched him the award in 2016, has seldom been out of the news this year. But, does that really leave him in line to join double winners Presidents Reagan, Clinton and George W Bush?
It does not appear to be a vintage year. Of Trump’s rivals in the odds list, Musk’s main claim to fame has been paying the Securities & Exchange Commission $20 million to settle a security fraud charge stemming from a series of tweets that allegedly misled investors.
Putin wouldn’t get many votes from Salisbury – the British city famed for its 123-meter cathedral spire and attacks with the deadly nerve agent Novichok.
And at number eight at 20-1, Boris Johnson, Britain’s floppy-haired former foreign secretary’s main newsworthiness in 2018 was resigning this summer after a row over Prime Minister Theresa May’s position on Britain’s exit from the European Union - a matter still very far from being resolved.
Source: forbes.com
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