https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/06/fox-news-trump-award/BROOKVILLE, N.Y. — Fox News stars feted Donald Trump at the annual Fox Nation Patriots Awards here on Thursday night, and the president-elect praised the “incredible people at Fox” as he accepted an award as “Honorary Patriot of the Year” from the most powerful force in cable television news.Trump began his brief acceptance speech by alluding to his complaints about the network and noting that he doesn’t like “a couple” people on its staff. But despite Trump’s gripes about Fox’s coverage of his political rivals and of President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, the event was a reminder of the long-standing, occasionally troubled and often mutually beneficial relationship between Trump and Fox.Trump has spent the weeks since Election Day mostly entrenched at his Mar-a-Lago Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, and his decision to fly to Long Island to accept the award from Fox Nation, the TV network’s streaming service, highlights the influential role Fox is poised to play as Trump returns to the White House.Days before the event, which also honored military veterans, first responders and other community leaders, Trump posted on Truth Social that he looked “greatly forward” to receiving the award, calling the accolade “so nice!” In that post, he took a different tone than he had less than two months ago, when he criticized Fox News’s interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and wrote the network has “grown so weak and soft on the Democrats.”
“FoxNews has totally lost its way!” he wrote at the time.Throughout Trump’s first term, the president’s public statements and policy decisions often were influenced by Fox and its popular hosts. Trump watched the network religiously, often calling in by phone himself and tweeting responses to its reports in real time or after watching its shows on DVR.Ahead of his return to the White House, Trump has tapped many of the network’s former hosts, contributors and frequent guests to serve in key roles in his administration, including Pete Hegseth, his embattled pick for defense secretary.Hegseth’s confirmation battle loomed over the event, which he was originally scheduled to emcee at the Tilles Center, a concert hall at Long Island University. A video montage played during the event included clips of Hegseth speaking on television about the 2014 Veteran Affairs hospital scandal.“Just as an aside, there was someone in that package that I thought, I don’t know if you thought, looked like they would make one hell of a secretary of defense,” said Will Cain, who co-hosted Fox & Friends Weekend with Hegseth before he left the network to pursue the Pentagon job.Paula Pedene, a former chief spokeswoman for the Phoenix Veterans Affairs hospital who blew the whistle on mismanagement at the facility, also spoke positively of Hegseth as she accepted an award.“Thank goodness Pete Hegseth — before he came to Fox News — was with Concerned Veterans for America, and they helped us,” Pedene said. “They helped fix it.”
In the more than two hours before Trump’s arrival, the roughly 2,000 attendees at the sold-out event chanted “U-S-A” and cheered as Fox host and event emcee Sean Hannity honored various charities, even bringing dogs onstage from Paws of War, a group that provides service dogs to veterans and their families especially for those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The college auditorium was smaller than last year’s venue, Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry. The arts center was decorated with red, white and blue balloons, and American flags were projected on the walls and ceilings. A handful of Trump and MAGA hats were visible in the auditorium, and although most attendees wore business-casual clothing, some were dressed for a formal affair, sporting ball gowns and sleek suits.Trump’s remarks, which lasted less than 20 minutes, echoed his campaign trail stump speech. He lamented that the 2020 election was a “very unfair situation” and baselessly suggested that Democrats tried to “rig” the 2024 presidential election. He touted his recent tariff threats on Canada and Mexico and repeated his evidence-free claim that other countries are emptying out their “mental institutions” and “insane asylums” to send immigrants to the U.S.Earlier in the evening, Trump announced a slew of nominees and appointments, including Caleb Vitello as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Rodney Scott as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection; former Republican senator David Perdue (Georgia) as U.S. ambassador to China; and former National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd as U.S. ambassador to Chile.
Outside the event, people ran from their cars past giant, light-up letters spelling “Patriot Awards” to escape below-freezing temperatures and high winds. A Tesla Cybertruck was parked in the overflowing lot. Relatively few students gathered outside, but some stopped to take photos outside the event. They said that their classmates were either indifferent or excited about Trump’s appearance, and that no one had protested the event.Before Trump’s remarks, Fox Nation appeared to have streaming issues, and some users complained on social media that they were unable to access the service. A spokesperson for Fox said the issues were due to overwhelming demand but did not immediately share specific numbers about how many people tried to log on.Trump’s remarks ended the same way most of his campaign rallies did — with him dancing onstage to the Village People’s 1978 hit “Y.M.C.A.” before exiting.
Hunter Biden caused this
>>1366666Kind of, yeah
SNL cold open right after election where the cast members sucked up to tRump was mildly amusing, but when James Austin came on in a muscle suit, as "Pumped tRump", I spilt my Oolong tea.
>popular political figure is popular within his partywhat's the story here? we're pretending it's not the same fare with liberal media for Kamala/Obama?
>>1366694Same deal, except on their side it's ubiquitous praise across hundreds of separate media companies. They single out Fox as if it's uniquely bad because it's the sole outlet that does what they do from the opposite side.
>Trump’s remarks ended the same way most of his campaign rallies did — with him dancing onstage to the Village People’s 1978 hit “Y.M.C.A.” before exiting.why does this make them so mad? hope he keeps doing it for the rest of his presidency. lol.
>>1366700>YMCA is a song by a bunch of gay people about gay people finding safety and acceptance with other gay people.What did Trump mean by this?
>>1366695Good post
>>1366695>They single out Fox as if it's uniquely bad because Rupert Murdoch admitted to lying in stories in order to rile up gullible morons like myself and other magafagsfixed that for you, shill
>>1366706>"As we celebrate LGBT Pride Month and recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great Nation, let us also stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison or even executive individuals on the basis of sexual orientation"Trump is and has always been pro gay. I know this boggles your minds, but he was a NY Democrat for most of his adult life.
>>1366713>my media company of choice would never lie to meno one actually believes this, right?
>>1366709Is this a bot?
>>1366694Which leftist media companies called Kamala "patriot of the year"?
>>1366714The people you are replying to have been doing nothing for the last 8 years if not choking down the latest democrat propaganda while huffing their own farts
>>1366724>>>/d/
>>1366724When you've been indoctrinated to think most mainstream news sources are democrat propaganda it's no wonder you have no idea what's happening in the world.
>>1366739Fun fact. For most of the past 8 years, the CEO of NPR was John Lansing, who's previous position was CEO of the us state department's foreign propaganda outlet, the United States Agency for Global MediaInteresting, actually. I've been bringing this up in n the board for years and just the other day someone posted a Joe Rogan interview of a state department official who talked about this very thing, democrat administrations using NGO's funded by the state to distribute domestic propaganda to the US.It's very real, and the last CEO of NPR being a literal propaganda official should be more than enough evidence to warrant caution
>>1366739he's a paid shill, what do you expect
>>1366653He deserves it. Like I'm typically prodemocracy because I wouldn't trust any of these hopped up shits to even wipe my ass, but with Trump, in an ideal world, he'd be king. Ain't nobody better then him.
>>1366802Cuck.
>>1366802nerd
>>1366766Good post
>>1366766>who's previous position was CEO of the us state department's foreign propaganda outlet, the United States Agency for Global MediaThe truly amazing thing is that Trump is packing his cabinet with billionaires and corporate elite but you're more afraid of the guy who worked for the US Agency for Global Media.
>>1366816This bot is horribly malfunctioning.
>>1366817dont forget the nepotism. drain the swamp so he said.
>>1366802Once Trump passes election reforms, we will never lose again. Here's his proposed plans:>no early voting>no mail voting>paper ballots>voter IDs>poll tax to keep low IQ from voting>day 1 vote countingThis is how we did it for hundreds of years. It works. It's American.
>>1366834>We'll never lose again as long as we remove every way for people who actually have a job to vote without calling off work.Repubs at their finest.
>>1366834>This is how we did it for hundreds of years. It works. It's American.Mail in voting has been around since the Civil War. >to keep low IQ from votingRepublicans rely on low IQ voters.
>>1366867Republicans relied on the working class this year.Majority of voters rejected self centered democrat fart huffers and propagandists.
>>1366869this. we need to get out all the scintests and degree know nothing know alls and get some blue collar and bussinessmen in (what trump is doing rite now). like RFK told the health scientsits, they are going to be taking a permament break from disease from now on
>>1366869Republicans relied on misinformation and driving home the same few things to the point you could put them on a bumper sticker. People with an IQ over 110 saw through the inflation bullshit, the border bullshit. And right now I'm seing through the voting issue bullshit. The guy who didn't make a fuss in 16 or 24 because he won yet had a fucking meltdown in 20 is reforming voting. What we're seeing is 4th reich shit.
>>1366871>Republicans relied on misinformationKeep huffing your own farts, idiot, maybe you'll find the fake bullet that never hit trump. Or was it shrapnel from a teleprompter? I can't keep up with all the democrat conspiracy theories.
>>1366874Sounds good stay mad
>>1366875Calling every opinion that is different from your own "misinformation" is a sad choice of discourse for democrats, yet it's the road their party has chosen to travel. It's no surprise they alienated large numbers of voters
>>1366880Meanwhile we're still trying to find anything more than a single native crackhead eating a cat in Ohio.
>>1366882I didn't know native Americans ate cats.
>>1366893Anybody Trump says eats cats actually eats cats, am i right fellow MAGAt?
>>1366653so he wasn't a patriot before this year? it checks out.
>>1366653Cringe Fox is for fags.
>>1366653proof he owns fox
