President Trump announced the Fake News Awardees last night. Needless to say the reactions are extremely popcorn worthy.

It started with headlines like these:

Why Trump has little to gain from ‘Fake News Awards’

Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ Have a Sinister Subtext

Wow! That’s scary! Yet Bloomberg never said a word when news broke that Obama had gone after James Rosen. So you tell me where the “sinister subtext” fits.

Then the White House Press gaggle jumped on the bandwagon.

“What’s up with the awards?” one reporter asked. Sanders said she will keep the reporters “posted” and that they would take place “later today.”

When the reporter said they would be looking forward to the announcement, Sanders turned it up to 11.

“I know you’re all waiting to see if you’re big winners,” she said, “I‘m sure.”

The thing is, they were! They ALL wanted to know who made the Cool Kids List!

And the FAKE NEWS winners are…https://t.co/59G6x2f7fD

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2018

The problem is, the GOP website crashed just as the awards were announced.

When you send out the Fake News Awards but it’s a broken link pic.twitter.com/B28rgGv4I4

— Jason Schwartz (@JasonSchwartz) January 18, 2018

SAD. When @realDonaldTrump finally announces his #FakeNewsAwards, the website crashes. Maybe a better use of "Executive Time" would have prevented this. https://t.co/8TUuEGCnsy

— Scott Gorlick (@sgorlick) January 18, 2018

Dude! It wasn’t his website! But whatevs …

ANNNDDDD Twitter started going bananas. Or was it apples? I dunno, maybe CNN can help with that. But I digress.

Fake News Awards is the #2 trend in America and democrats are FORCED to type fake news in order to participate.

President Trump is a genius.#FakeNewsAwards

— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) January 18, 2018

Yes, indeed he is. That is some master level trolling right there, President Trump!

So who were the winners? In order, we have the following via Legal Insurrection:

1. The New York Times’ Paul Krugman claimed on the day of President Trump’s historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover.

2. ABC News’ Brian Ross CHOKES and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report.

3. CNN FALSELY reported that candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald J. Trump, Jr. had access to hacked documents from WikiLeaks.

4. TIME FALSELY reported that President Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office.

5. Washington Post FALSELY reported the President’s massive sold-out rally in Pensacola, Florida was empty. Dishonest reporter showed picture of empty arena HOURS before crowd started pouring in.

6. CNN FALSELY edited a video to make it appear President Trump defiantly overfed fish during a visit with the Japanese prime minister. Japanese prime minister actually led the way with the feeding.

7. CNN FALSELY reported about Anthony Scaramucci’s meeting with a Russian, but retracted it due to a “significant breakdown in process.”

8. Newsweek FALSELY reported that Polish First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda did not shake President Trump’s hand.

9. CNN FALSELY reported that former FBI Director James Comey would dispute President Trump’s claim that he was told he is not under investigation.

10. The New York Times FALSELY claimed on the front page that the Trump administration had hidden a climate report.

11. And last, but not least: “RUSSIA COLLUSION!” Russian collusion is perhaps the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people. THERE IS NO COLLUSION!

Yeah, I’d say that covers it pretty well. So, how did the media react?

NBC News and MSNBC won zero Fake News Awards.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 18, 2018

Gee…one would think he’s almost disappointed about that.

We are real news Mr. President. #realnews

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) February 18, 2017

Yes, that tweet is nearly a year old, but given Acosta’s continued temper tantrums and having to be ordered out of the Oval Office just two days ago, I’d be willing to bet Acosta is chanting that to himself on a continual basis.

Meanwhile, CNN’s Brian Stelter put out this story in response to the awards.

Trump averages a ‘fake’ insult every day. Really. We counted.

Well, goody goody gumdrops! Hey CNN, how many times did you use the word Sh*thole once Dickie Durban alerted the media? 195 times in ONE DAY.

Meanwhile, others are having fun trolling the winners.

Congratulations to all the winners, the vast majority of whom totally earned it.

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 18, 2018

I thought @maddow would have been up for best male lead. #FakeNewsAwards

— Robert Sacamano (@ScarletKnight89) January 18, 2018

https://twitter.com/JodiGiddings/status/953799448252973057

It is perfectly #fakenews for the #Resistance media to report on the #FakeNewsAwards as a failure

The truth is so many people wanted to see them it crashed the site

That's the very definition of a raging successhttps://t.co/D28NyvUY1j

— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) January 18, 2018

Meanwhile, 2018 is off to a stellar start with Fake News! Yes, you guessed it. I’m talking about the massive Sh*tstorm surrounding the Fake News Sh*thole Comment supposedly uttered by President Trump.

The early leaders for the 2018 Fake News Awards are Dickie Durbin and Cory Booker. Durbin because he’s walked back his Sh*thole statement and Booker because of his unhinged meltdown during DHS Secretary Nielsen’s testimony. Please, someone get Booker a Pause Pod! He really needs one!

Just one last thing. Paul Krugman, any comment regarding your fake stock market prediction? In case you didn’t catch the news, the Dow closed at a record 26,115.65 yesterday.