The real-estate-mogul-cum-movie-expert showed up, by phone, Monday morning on Fox & Friends to give his steaming hot take on just how bored he was during the 87th Academy Awards. Amazingly, he avoided suggesting he should host, produce, and perform at next year’s show to boost ratings.
“I thought it was terrible,” he told the couch-dwelling hosts.
“I thought a lot of the winning performances and a lot of the winners were surprise winners,” he also declared. Fact check time: Nope. Most of the big awards went exactly as expected, according to Vegas odds and prediction markets. (Wait. Why are we fact-checking Trump? Someone help us, please.)
Meanwhile, Elisabeth Hasselbeck did her obligatory mention of how American Sniper was “snubbed” and somehow lost Best Picture despite being the top-viewed of all
Trump’s take: “It was a great night for Mexico, as usual — this country, you know, the whole thing is ridiculous.”
(Get it? Because Mexicans take our jobs and now our awards!)
“It was a great night for Mexico. This guy kept getting up and up and up. What’s he doing? He’s walking away with all the gold? Was it that good? I don’t hear that. It was a big night for them.”
They talked a little bit more about conservatives being snubbed or whatever, but let’s just end it here and cut to the video below, via Fox:
UPDATE — 12:01 p.m. ET: I spoke too soon:
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