The hacks on this Friday’s The Five on Fox not “news” offered the most pitiful defense yet for Trump stealing Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Rather than cringing like every sane person in the world over this international embarrassment, here’s how Fox’s Jesse Watters, Lisa Montgomery Kennedy, Emily Campagno and Greg Gutfeld justified it.
KENNEDY: Jesse, you remarked during the commercial break the smile that he had on his face.
WATTERS: I have never seen him smile like that. He loves awards. I mean, more than me, and I actually require the host to present me with an award when I do a speaking engagement. I have about, I’m not going to name the amount of awards I have, but 80 percent of them I didn’t deserve.
FORD: 80 percent?
WATTERS: 90 percent of them I didn’t deserve, yet I still display them proudly in my many offices and libraries. And people that don’t know me and what a shyster I am think I actually deserve them. And that’s what I want to project.
I’m not saying this is the way Trump sees things, but if you go to all of his clubs, it’s the same thing. Every wall, every niche, is that how say it? It houses some sort of award, or plaque, silver cup. and most of them he deserves.
KENNEDY: Now if he won one men’s singles at the US Open (inaudible).
