Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel Takes Out TIME Person of the Year, Is The First Woman In 29 Years

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the first woman in 29 years to take the crown of TIME person of the year.

Following a year of instability in Europe, Merkel lead the way in uniting Europe and helping solve the Greek debt crisis, the refugee crisis and a new wave of terrorism.

The latest issue of the magazine mentions her upbringing as a refugee and the perspective this has given her, while making her an unlikely candidate for the leadership role she has held now for a decade. It says:

“Europe’s most powerful leader is a refugee from a time and place where her power would have been unimaginable”

“The shy daughter of a Lutheran minister, Merkel slipped into politics as a divorced Protestant in a largely Catholic party, a woman in a frat house, an Ossi in the newly unified Germany of the 1990s where easterners were still aliens.

No other major Western leader grew up in a stockade, which gave Merkel a rare perspective on the lure of freedom and the risks people will take to taste it.”

Merkel is the first woman to receive the Person of the Year award as as individual since Corazon Aquino, the first woman president of the Philippines, who graced the cover in 1986.

Of course, the ungracious dick that is Donald Trump is annoyed because he thinks he should have won. He tweeted his displeasure and took a cheap shot at Merkel, not that she’d care…