Trump: I turned down Time's 'Person of the Year'

President Trump said Friday that he turned down being named Time's "Person of the Year" after the magazine only told him he "probably" would be selected.
In a tweet posted Friday afternoon, Trump wrote that he was called by the magazine to inform him that he would be named "Person of the Year" in 2017, but that he declined.

"Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named "Man (Person) of the Year," like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass," the president wrote, adding: "Thanks anyway!"
Trump was previously named Time's 2016 "Person of the Year" last December. At the time, he called the award a "great honor."

"It's a great honor. It means a lot," Trump said at the time.

"To be on the cover of Time magazine as the person of the year is a tremendous honor," he added.

In last year's edition, Time Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs explained that regardless of how they feel, everyone has an opinion on Trump.

"For those who believe this is all for the better, Trump's victory represents a long-overdue rebuke to an entrenched and arrogant governing class," she said.

"For those who see it for the worse, the destruction extends to cherished norms of civility and discourse, a politics poisoned by vile streams of racism, sexism, nativism."

Trump's tweet Friday afternoon follows an online reader's poll that shows Trump being outperformed by singer Taylor Swift and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz for this year's honor.

This year's winner will be announced on Dec. 6. A request for comment from TIME over whether it had extended the invitation was not immediately answered.