DONALD Trump’s nomination as TIME person of the year has proved as divisive as his Presidential campaign, with many taking to social media to share their reaction.

On Twitter, some were quick to suggest the President Elect followed in the company of Hitler, Stalin and Putin who had also received the iconic title.

Others lambasted them for overreacting and pointed out the Pope and Angela Merkel had also been named the winner before.

The magazine’s annual award names the person who has had the “greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the year”.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, The Ebola Fighters, The Pope, President Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Former President George W Bush, and Julian Assange have also won the title before.

Trump has been named TIME's person of the year. I thought you had to be a actual human person to win that...#GoFigure #CrazyWorld — Matthew Griffiths (@HashtagGriff) December 7, 2016

Trump considers being named Time's Person of the Year a "great honor." Hitler and Stalin both shared same "honor". #realDonaldTrump — Laura Daly (@lldaly) December 7, 2016

TRUMP: The crooked media lies!

TIME: You're our Person of the Year.

TRUMP: TIME magazine is a great publication. I've always respected TIME. — Dustin Perry (@dustin_perry) December 7, 2016

TIME did Hitler, Stalin, and Putin before Trump - stop being so reactionary — Mehdi H-P (@mhp94) December 7, 2016

The right needs to settle down TIME's cover label is spot on. Trump didn't win America, he won less than half of it. — Jga (@TakeaBowPires) December 7, 2016

See @TIME's Person of the Year 2016 cover: Donald Trump, President of the Divided States of America #TIMEPOY https://t.co/SdK12YhoNr pic.twitter.com/WuYyWVpp6X — Priyanka Aribindi (@priaribi) December 7, 2016

Wait, did Time really name Trump "Person of the Year"?! I thought that was a joke. — Chaneen (@bliss116) December 7, 2016

People - Time's Man of the Year just refers to the most influential person they perceive that year. Really no argument that it was Trump. — David Pratt (@PresidentPratt) December 7, 2016

Trump all the way! Divided bcz of Obama not Trump! Cheap shot Time! This is why I never buy your Magazine. Person of the Year 2016 #MAGA 🇺🇸 — Riya sharma (@riyasharma266) December 7, 2016

Time's Person of the Year, #PresidentTrump No other choice as 2016 was owned by Trump. It just takes one man.. https://t.co/Oj98iIxEAZ pic.twitter.com/Dtx7nRdBEE — BenGarrison Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) December 7, 2016

Before you go complaining about Donald Trump being named TIME's person of the year, remember that You were person of the year in 2006. — Kyle Tyrrell (@kyletyrrell) December 7, 2016

Well Well Well...Time Magazine Person of The Year!!! Number 2 will make you laugh! Number 1 will make you CHEER! https://t.co/LsCEGMaADp pic.twitter.com/LhoIBnTvUl — We Got Trump (@WeNeedTrump) December 7, 2016

Hitler, Khomeini, Stalin... and now Trump. Time Magazine Person of the Year: https://t.co/8KLpDdCAOf — looptron (@looptron) December 7, 2016

The Republican President beat Hillary Clinton who came in number two and “the hackers” at number three. Turkish President Erdogan was number four while the CRISPR pioneers, who allowed scientists to alter DNA cheaply and easily beat Beyonce who came in at number 6.

TIME Editor-in-Chief Nancy Gibbs said the President-elect wrote: “For reminding America that demagoguery feeds on despair and that truth is only as powerful as the trust in those who speak it, for empowering a hidden electorate by mainstreaming its furies and live-streaming its fears, and for framing tomorrow’s political culture by demolishing yesterday’s, Donald Trump is TIME’s 2016 Person of the Year.”

TIME’s Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer said: “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.”

“Now he has up-ended 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. And the people he has to thank are those he calls ‘the forgotten,’ millions of American voters who get paid by the hour in shoes that will never touch these carpets — working folk, regular Janes and Joes, the dots in the distance.”

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