To paraphrase the intro to the 1960s TV series The Outer Limits, ‘There is nothing wrong with your computer screen, Fox is controlling it.’ Well, not exactly but you get the point. Like the old classic computer game pong Fox bounces back and forth between idiotic, suck-up praise to Trump yet sometimes the actual news part (yes, there is one) telling a little truth on him. Well, Fox clearly went into suck-up mode with their streaming platform Fox Nation crowing Melania Trump as “Patriot of the Year.” No, you haven’t been re-directed from Politizoom to the Onion.
Last year was the first set of Fox Nation’s “Patriot” awards and of course it was The Donald Himself who got the very first Patriot of the Year prize. No doubt to soothe his disappointment over once again not getting the Nobel Peace Prize he began to covet even more than having sex with his oldest daughter. Perhaps realizing nothing will ever make up for the lack of a Nobel Prize Trump can wear around his neck every day instead of his too long tie they moved on and named someone else. One person who commented to the news said something along the lines of them ‘at least keeping it the family, even suggesting perhaps next year it will be Barron.’
Regardless, ‘Melania’ is now officially the bigly Patriot of the Year, at least according to Fox. Needless to say, as you can see in this HuffPost article the news has prompted some reaction that is rather less than congratulatory. Let’s start at the beginning:
An award created by Fox Nation, the streaming arm of Fox News, is staying in the family.
It’s passing directly from Donald Trump to Melania Trump.
Fox News announced on social media Wednesday that the first lady will be honored as “Patriot of the Year” at the 2025 Patriot Awards, taking place Thursday.
Again, this ‘honor’/award was created only a year ago and wannabe King Donald was the first recipient. Now it’s Melania. At least they didn’t give it to daughter-in-law Lara. Maybe they were afraid she’d try to sing from the podium during her acceptance speech? As for what Donald, or Melania or any Trump has done that’s patriotic you tell me. NO ONE from either side of Trump’s family has spent one freaking day in the armed forces. Hell, we only have Cadet Bones Spurs (aka Trump) because his grandfather was a draft dodger back in the old country. He fled, winging up in the U.S. He prospered for a bit (brothel owner in Alaska) but failed (ah, quick money then failure IS in Trump’s genes) and tried to slink home.
He asked the king back home if he could pretty please stay and was told to get out and STAY out. Tragically. Both for the U.S. and the free world because ole Friedrich Drumpf (yes, the family name was Drumpf before it got Americanized into Trump) came back here. How much better would this world be if Trump’s P.O.S. grandad had gone home and begged to stay and earn the right to do so by serving in their army? Oh well. The point is that he, and every descendant has studiously avoided military service to include outright draft dodging. The same is true with Trumpyt’s MOM and her family.
Real patriots those Trumps.
For conservative lurkers to this site who want to claim his “service” via being President give me don’t go handing me a platter of sh*t and telling me it’s my Thanksgiving feast. He and the family used his first term to grift and within months of taking office again far surpassed the grifting of his first stint in our Oval Office! Trump hasn’t GIVEN to this country. He’s TAKEN from it and that’s really all he cares about anymore. How much he can take, whether it’s money or accolades/faux honors and other perks.
The same is true of Trophy Wife #3, aka Melania Trump. Like a lot of women she entered into a contractual marriage with a rich guy. Trump is hardly the first rich/powerful guy to go through a set of trophy wives. They get a prenup that guarantees them a nice payout in the millions and a condo or house. Sometimes both. In exchange they will for a specified period of years (before they are ‘vested’) they keep themselves fit looking so they can play arm candy when hubby wants to show them off. Oh, and pump out a kid so even in his fifties or sixties (or even later) he can nudge the guys and wink about having ‘proof’ he’s ‘tapping that’ as in the trophy wive.
Melania cried on election night in 2016 because she’d put in her ten years and was ready to collect her money. Now she was stuck. She could have broken away after Trump got beat but she knew like the rest of us he’d run again and negotiated a new deal. Probably more than once. She’d stay, literally on the job as trophy wife in exchange for a ton more money. However her appearances have been few and far between, something that gets a fair amount of attention in the reaction to the bigly announcement of her being named Patriot of the Year. To be fair, according to HuffPost some folks did in fact post approving responses to Fox’s original tweet, but have yourself some fun and click on the link I provided earlier. Their attempt to do some Melania (and by extension Trump himself) fluffing got ratioed.
As for me I don’t know whether to laugh (albeit painfully) or puke. Maybe both at the same time? I know as well as you do this is pure sewing of lips to ass on Fox’s part. Still, I wondered as do the folks who kept posing variations on the question (you owe it to yourself to check out the link and see a whole bunch of responses) of what ‘Melanie’ could possibly have done they could use as a weak-ass justification. Then it hit me – Crees-Mus decotraionts!
Now, I know your mind immediately jumps to all the reporting about how put out Melania felt about having to ‘do theese fooking Cree-Mus decorations of White House.’ She was pissed enough to come up with some that were almost frightening including that walkway that looked like a clean-room at a manufacturing facility or a top biohazard lab. Or the one with the blood red trees everyone joked were used tampons. Ah, but if only by marriage she IS a Trump. She was a rich hubby seeking grifter when she met him and seems to have learned something from him. She created a line of Crees-Mus ornery-ments to SELL.
Some of them had red, white and blue elements about them which I guess was meant to evoke American pride. And for course some with pictures of her Don-OLD on them, or the two of them together to hang on the tree or display in other ways. I can hear her now: ‘FOOK! Eet be bad enough be told I have to due fooking CREES-MUS decorate. Now I be told we ree-choired make some Pay-tree-optic ornaments! Sheet! Is this stoo-pid mad-ness never end? Somebodee come up with Pay-tree-ut lookeeng thing or two. NOW!’
That must be it. Melania threw a fit and some staffers got their kids to imagine Trump and her being patriotic and turn it into a Christmas ornaments. If you can come up with something else please speak up. For now I’ll just marvel at how, even in the face of Trump’s rejection earlier this week Fox found a way to try and cheer him up. Still, part of me wonders since he won the award himself last year is he willing to let someone else now have it? Someday we may learn he was in fact furious. Vegas can probably set odds on that. I’ll also, as I so often do wonder how The Onion manages to keep going. How the hell can they satirize Trump when he and his enablers are so good at BEING satirical?
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Where is she? She didn’t go to Europe. She didn’t go to Asia. Where is she?????
She’s wherever Donald is not. It’s low class that they have such a bad relationship that they can’t keep up appearances for protocol’s sake. And I guess that when they are together they don’t fool anybody. Queen Elizabeth said that “they have some kind of an arrangement.” Yes, they do. They’re married on paper so that Trump can have an ornamental female around some of the time that he needs one.
Carries about as much weight as the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Faux can make up all the BS awards they want, but the recipients determine the gravitas.
The Fox Award or whatever the hell it is, is not important except to the recipients. So far there have been two, Donald and Melania. Who’s up for next year, Barron?
Fun fact:
The late Queen Elizabeth the Second, of The United Kingdom had more time in military service than five generations of the Drumpf family.
Absolutely true. Her Majesty served in WWII.