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James Hanson reacts as Donald Trump receives another made up award... this time the 'Man of the Century' as awarded to him by Republican candidate Joe Mitchell.
The former state representative is locked in a tight race for Iowa's second congressional district with Democrat Lindsay James.
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It's time for this week's Hanson Ranson, where I vent my fury at someone or something
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that has got on my nerves in the past seven days. And today, I'm turning my ire on these spineless sycophants
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who refuse to tell Donald Trump that he's not the messiah, he's just a very naughty boy
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You probably remember the moment the FIFA president Gianni Infantino invented a fictional peace prize to give him
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FIFA, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, awards the 2025 FIFA Peace Prize
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Football unites the world to Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America
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in recognition of his exceptional and extraordinary actions to promote peace and unity around the world
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Friday, December 5th, 2025. This is the certificate. It's yours. Thank you very much. This is truly one of the great honours of my life. And beyond awards, Johnny and I were discussing this. We saved millions and millions of lives
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Well, if you thought that moment was absurd, especially as Trump then went on to bomb Iran, stage a coup in Venezuela and threatened to invade Greenland, then you ain't seen nothing yet
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Because if you think Gianni Anfantino is a brown nose, there is a Republican candidate in Iowa who's pretty much saying, hold my beer
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This is the moment a man called Joe Mitchell awarded the US president this week with a certificate for man of the century
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They've never given you the Nobel Peace Prize, by the way, which is a disgrace
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So what I came up with, Mr. President, is a new award
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It called the Man of the Century Award okay It the Man of the Century Award And I going to hold this up for the artificial media to see CNN zoom in right here CNN okay Because this man has been more for
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humanity and for America than any other president ever. Thank you, Mr. President, for being here
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Thank you for supporting Iowa. And thank you for being the greatest president we've ever had
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Man of the century. I mean, at this point, it is just absurd. I mean, is Donald Trump? I appreciate that he essentially knows no bounds when it comes to his ego
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And I wonder whether when he forces people like this ridiculous candidate in Iowa to come up with such ludicrous baubles they can present to him like some kind of, you know, peasant offering something to their master
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I appreciate that he's probably doing it as a flex to go, how stupid can I make you look
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How brown are you prepared to make your nose in the attempt to advance your own career
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Do you know what I mean? I think he's doing it as a form of humiliation ritual almost
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But even so, man of the century, you are the greatest president we've ever had over Abraham Lincoln, over George Washington, over FDR
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I mean, we are reaching the realms of the absurd now. So I have a suggestion If we going down the route of coming up with absurd invented awards to give to the US president let do it properly right If we going to start making up absolute nonsense and fictional absurd awards let go the whole hog So for any other Republican candidate hoping to get into Trump good books might I suggest you nominate him for one of the following
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Stand by. So the Congressional Medal of Honour for Bravery could be given to Trump for heroically enduring decades of vicious persecution by journalists asking him questions
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He'd like that one. You could give him the Nobel Prize for medicine for his pioneering research into the healing properties of disinfectant
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The Nobel Prize for physics for discovering that the earth revolves around Donald Trump
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You could give him the Academy Award for best actor for his moving portrayal of a man who's been treated more unfairly than anyone else in human history
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Oh, I'd love that one. He'd lap that one up. you could give him the Pulitzer Prize for literature
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for his groundbreaking contributions to the English language including words like bigly
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and the longest sentence ever spoken without reaching a point you could give him the Booker Prize for fiction
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for his collected speeches, autobiographies and tax returns or here's one the UN Award for Outstanding Services to Women
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for a lifetime spent championing women particularly beautiful women many of whom he has personally assessed on a scale of 1 to 10
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presented by an all-female judging panel, which he has insisted must be under the age of 30
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If we're going to do it, let's do it properly. So for any Republican out there, take your pick
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have any one of those awards, give them to Donald Trump, and I have a feeling he will lap it up
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Honestly, someone needs to grow a backbone and actually say to his face that Donald Trump is doing serious damage
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to just about everyone now He doing damage to his own Republican Party That Republican candidate in Iowa what made this scene even more absurd was that that Republican candidate in Iowa will be having his electoral prospects damaged in the upcoming midterms by the presence of Donald Trump
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No one actually wants the president in any of the swing states. Because there are states now in play like Kansas or Nebraska in the Senate races or Alaska even or Texas
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that for many years were safe Republican states, but have been made into swing states in this cycle
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because of the unpopularity of this president. And yet no one's got the guts to actually tell Donald Trump
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we don't want you here. By turning up, you are damaging our electoral fortunes
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No one has the guts to tell him he is damaging Americans' livelihoods
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through his disastrous wars, his trade war with Canada, his actual war with Iran that is pushing up prices
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No one has the guts to tell him he is weakening the global alliance, weakening NATO through sucking up to Putin and doing a dodgy diesel deal with him
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No one has the guts to tell him the truth. And instead, we are forced to sit there watching supine sycophants like this
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What's he called again? Joe Mitchell in Iowa, giving him a man of the century certificate
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I mean, this is just. Yes, it's hilarious on one level, but it's not really funny, is it
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Because this is the leader of the free world, the most powerful man on the planet
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who is being treated like a toddler who hasn't got a prize at sports day
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and so he's gone home and his mum has invented one for him. It is just beyond a joke
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Donald Trump grow up and the people who pander to his ego grow up as well
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