Trump Is Time Magazine's Person Of The Year

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is Time magazine's Person of the Year.

The president-elect's selection was announced Wednesday morning on NBC's "Today" show.

The Manhattan real estate magnate went from fiery underdog to win the White House over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Trump won the Electoral College vote, while Clinton won the popular vote.

Time's managing editor Nancy Gibbs said Clinton was the No. 2 finalist.

In its article, Time writes "For all of Trump's public life, tastemakers and intellectuals have dismissed him as a vulgarian and carnival barker, a showman with big flash and little substance. But what those critics never understood was that their disdain gave him strength.

"For years, he fed off the disrespect and used it to grab more tabloid headlines, to connect to common people. Now he has upended the leadership of both major political parties and effectively shifted the political direction of the international order. He will soon command history's most lethal military, along with economic levers that can change the lives of billions."