I decided to skip summarizing our city stops on our 60-day journey. You can read those postings at Seattle, Chihuly Museum, Amsterdam and Zurich.As would be expected, Time's 2024 Person of the Year will be Donald Trump. Is it because he was the most fabulous individual of the year?
- Nope. To quote.
A person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year".[2]
- Time points out that controversial figures such as Adolf Hitler(1938); Joseph Stalin (1939 and 1942); Nikita Khrushchev (1957); and Ayatollah Khomeini(1979) have also been granted the title for their impact on events.[16]
- Here, read the Time 2January1939 article about Adolf Hitler.
- Turns out that the just-elected president of the USA is now ALWAYS the Person of the Year.
- The first person of the year was Charles Lindbergh in 1927. He won for flying his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, from Garden City, New York to Paris, France.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt made it three times.
- He was the first U.S. president so honored, in 1932, and since then every new first-time elected president automatically is now being so named.
- Presidents Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford are the only ones not to be so recognized.
- First female was Wallis Warfield Simpson in 1936.
- In 1983, the computer was selected. First inanimate object.
- Until 1999, was called Man of the Year.
- Youngest person was 16-year old Greta Thunberg in 2019.
- I predict that Global Warming and AI will be named Thing of the Year by Time during the next three years.
- Interesting that both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were selected in 2020 for beating Donald Trump to the White House. First time a Veep was named too.
- Want to mention that the 2021 Person was Elon Musk for becoming the richest in the world.
- Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine were selected in 2022.
- Then last year it was Taylor Swift.
- There should have been 152, for three shows were cancelled in Vienna to avoid a possible terrorist plot.
- Spent 484 hours (or 20 straight days) on stage. The average performance was 3 hours and 15 minutes. Just one song, All Too Well, took up 25 hours.
- That was the 10-minute version in Singapore.
- In 2021 she re-released this song, and doubled the length to just over 10 minutes. This broke Don McLean's American Pie for the longest #1 song on Billboard. Sent him a bouquet of flowers. He had held that record for 50 years.
- To train for the tour, she ran on the treadmill everyday while singing the entire set list out loud.
- 21 countries.
- Kicked-off on 17March2023 in Glendale, Arizona.
- Became the girlfriend of Kansas City's Travis Kelce, (that's him above on the Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium) and in February 2024 flew back from Tokyo to attend the Super Bowl to watch Kelce.
- Ah, she just missed Kelce's performance this past Sunday in K.C., for she was completing her Eras Tour in Vancouver that day. She had attended ALL home games this year.
- Next Sunday, the Chiefs play at the Browns. She hasn't gone to any away games this season, and probably won't on December 15. Yet, she reaches 35 on December 13, so who knows for sure.
- Odds are high that she will go to the home game against the Texans on December 21, for she has said that she plans to hibernate with Travis for a while.
- Together, they are worth $1.59 billion, although one report shows she alone is at $1.6 billion, with Kelce at $90 million.
- These are her 12 #1 songs on Billboard.
Swift had of course endorsed Joe Biden, and this following image turned out not to be true. In fact, after Donald Trump trounced Kamala Harris, Kelce attempted to mend the future relationship between Swift and Trump.
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