Time-list: Trump against a player with influence

climate-activist Thunberg belongs to the Pope, of course: Every year the magazine "Time chooses the" influential persons. The list in the category of "Leaders" for a woman - it Chancellor is Angela Merkel.

Kai Clement, ARD Studio New York

A woman, as the most influential Person of the year? No, it was the German Chancellor that the "Time Magazine" has earlier celebrated as the "leader of the free world" is not. Angela Merkel is flown in 2017 from the list. Instead, it is now Nancy Pelosi - the democratic Chairman of the US house of representatives and one of the main Opponents of Donald Trump.

Party colleague, Hillary Clinton, praised Pelosi as a no, the beigebe in front of a bully small.

Also on the list: U.S. judge Kavanaugh ...

climate activist and a student of Thunberg

Kavanaugh and Thunberg on the list

The US President himself is also on the list, but in a society which appears to him fit, at least in part. Including the student and climate activist Greta Thunberg and New York's left-wing Democrat, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. All of them are to be found in the section "Leaders", leaders.

U.S. attorney General Bill Barr, or the Trump into office brought Supreme judge Brett Kavanaugh, but also, in the same way as the Pope, or Israel, just re-elected President Benjamin Netanyahu. Venezuela's oppostion leader Juan Guaidó is represented. He possessed the greatest of all the virtues - courage, it said.

The magazine, the actress Sandra Oh, praised, known from the series "Grey's Anatomy", as the pioneer. Actor Dwayne Johnson was the personification of outright the idea that people might forget what you said, what you've done, but never what emotions you trigger in them, so the Eulogy. Pop star Taylor Swift leads the list of the icons, the footballer Mohamed Salah, the of the titans.

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