NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump, largely ensconced at Mar-a-Lago in latest weeks, will make a uncommon look exterior his Florida resort to simply accept the “Patriot of the Year” award at FOX Nation’s Patriot Awards on Thursday evening.
Trump, who has been asserting job picks as he builds out his administration, will journey to New York’s Long Island for the annual awards ceremony from the Fox News streaming platform. The occasion is being hosted by Fox host Sean Hannity, a pal of Trump’s who stepped in after the president-elect nominated Pete Hegseth, the unique host, as protection secretary.
The annual awards “honor and acknowledge America’s best patriots, together with army veterans, first responders and different inspirational on a regular basis heroes,” in line with Fox.
Trump wrote on his Truth Social web site earlier this week that he appears “enormously ahead” to receiving the Patriot of the Year award, an honor he known as “so good!”
The award marks the fruits of Fox’s reembrace of the president-elect, who has had an up-and-down relationship with the community lately.
The community paid $787 million in 2023 to settle a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems over false claims by Fox personalities who echoed Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him by mass voter fraud. For greater than six months ending in spring 2023, Fox had what many thought of a “tender ban” on Trump appearances, its leaders trying to transfer on. But when it turned clear that voters didn’t wish to, Fox and its personalities have been fast to embrace Trump once more.
Individual personalities have undergone their very own journeys: Former Fox host Megyn Kelly drew Trump’s ire in a 2015 debate for her sharp query about his therapy of ladies; now she’s a well-liked podcast host and Trump supporter. The Dominion lawsuit uncovered emails by which former Fox host Tucker Carlson spoke disparagingly of Trump, together with saying he “actually can’t wait” for Trump to turn into an ex-president. They’ve since made amends.
Through all of it, Trump has been fast to take to social media to criticize Fox for content material he deems insufficiently loyal.
Trump has begun to emerge extra in public since spending most of his transition up to now behind closed doorways at his membership in Palm Beach, Florida. This week, he made an unannounced look at a memorial service for 3 Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputies who have been killed in a automotive crash final month.
And this weekend, he’ll journey to Paris to affix different world leaders and dignitaries for a ceremony to have a good time the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral, which was devastated by a fireplace 5 years in the past.
Media Writer David Bauder contributed to this report.
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