# Time Magazine Announce Person of the Year Shortlist

> The #MeToo campaign, Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un, and Colin Kaepernick are among the names shortlisted for TIME Magazine ’s Person of the Year.

By Jonathan Foye · 5 December 2017 · News

Canonical: https://insights1.uca.org.au/articles/time-magazine-announce-person-of-the-year-shortlist/

The #MeToo campaign, Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un, and Colin Kaepernick are among the names shortlisted for *TIME Magazine*’s Person of the Year.

Running since 1927, the event recognises that year’s most newsworthy person, group, or idea.

While Person of the Year acknowledges newsworthiness, it is not an endorsement. Adolf Hitler’s **[1938 nomination read](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,00.html)** that he had pursued “an audacious, defiant, ruthless foreign policy.”

Donald Trump previously suggested that *TIME* had told him he was under consideration for Person of the Year, but that he had declined a requisite photo shoot and interview. For their part, *TIME* **[denied](https://www.salon.com/2017/12/04/time-reveals-its-person-of-the-year-shortlist-and-yeah-trump-is-on-it/)**approaching the President. “The President is incorrect about how we choose Person of the Year,” it wrote. “*TIME* does not comment on our choice until publication.”

*TIME* named Trump Person of the Year**[in 2016](https://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump-choice/)**. In an opinion piece explaining the decision, Nancy Gibbs wrote that Trump had succeeded in “framing tomorrow’s political culture by demolishing yesterday’s.”

Colin Kaepernick is an NFL player who famously ‘took a knee’ (kneeled rather than stood in reverence) during the United States’ national anthem last year. According to Kaepernick, this move was a protest against police brutality and racial inequality. He also **[pledged](https://www.sbnation.com/2017/8/23/16189462/colin-kaepernicks-foundation-donates-another-100000-to-j-cole-and-others)**to donate $1 million to charities benefiting people of colour and the oppressed. These included DREAM, Coalition for the Homeless, and War on Children.

The #MeToo campaign **[highlights](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-16/what-is-the-metoo-campaign/9055926)**the high number of women who have been sexually harassed. The current version of the campaign has been spearheaded by actress Alyssa Milano in response to widespread allegations of harassment and abuse in Hollywood.

*TIME Magazine* name their Person of the Year on Thursday 7 December (Wednesday in the United States).

**Jonathan Foye is Insights’ Editor**