Trump: Time’s Person of the Year, for “better or worse”

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Joy Reid leads this episode of the ReidOut with the breaking news of Donald Trump being named Time’s Person of the Year. Lawrence O’Donnell joins Joy Reid to discuss this title, the one Trump now shares with names like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Vladimir Putin. Also in this episode, North Carolina Governor-Elect Josh Stein joins Joy to discuss the giant power grab by his state’s Republicans, one that would strip duly elected Democrats in the state of their powers, and his lawsuit against the GOP legislation to fight back. Plus, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley joins the show to discuss President Biden’s day of pardoning more than 1,500 non-violent offenders on his way out of office. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on the readout.
0:07.4	Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. It is the shame of North
0:16.2	Carolina, a giant power grab by Republicans, strips powers from the governor, attorney general, and other
0:22.7	statewide offices simply because they were won by Democrats.
0:27.0	Governor-elect Josh Stein, who is most affected by this political atrocity, will join me.
0:33.3	Also tonight, President Biden's blockbuster day of pardons and commutations.
0:37.3	More than 1,500 nonviolent offenders get us. Also tonight, President Biden's blockbuster day of pardons and commutations.
0:42.2	More than 1,500 nonviolent defenders get a second chance.
0:44.2	And Biden says he's not done.
0:50.1	Plus, how United Health Care grew into an insurance monolith and left a lot of patients feeling mistreated along the way.
0:55.5	But we begin tonight with a dream of a boy from Queens, New York.
0:59.4	This boy wanted so desperately to impress those on the other side of the East River in Manhattan
1:04.2	to be accepted by its elites.
1:06.9	One way to achieve that was to be featured on the covers of major magazines,
1:10.6	most especially to be Time Magazine the covers of major magazines, most especially
1:11.3	to be Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Well, today, Donald Trump celebrated securing
1:17.7	that distinction for a second time. But to be clear, getting this title is not like winning
1:24.1	an Academy Award. It's not like, as actress Sally Field said in 1985, when winning her second Oscar,
1:30.8	I can't deny the fact that you like me right now.
1:33.0	You like me.
1:34.8	No, as Time magazine describes it, for 97 years, the editors of Time have been picking the person of the year.
1:41.0	The individual who, for better or for worse, did the most to shape the
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