Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) drew swift mockery on Wednesday after he awarded the president the first-ever “America First Award” on the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser, which he claimed would now be given “yearly from this level ahead.”
“We may consider no higher title for what that’s,” Johnson stated of the golden eagle statue. “That’s this stunning golden statue right here. Applicable for the brand new golden period in America.”
The over-the-top tribute rapidly sparked ridicule on-line.
It follows a string of equally eyebrow-raising accolades for Trump, together with the newly created FIFA Peace Prize, the Washington Coal Membership naming him the “Undisputed Champion of Stunning Clear Coal” and his controversial co-opting of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition chief María Corina Machado.
MS NOW host Jen Psaki didn’t maintain again: “Little Mike Johnson and all these Republicans have simply created yet one more participation trophy to present their very particular boy within the White Home to ensure he feels good about himself.”
Others, together with a number of lawmakers, piled on with comparable criticism.