President-elect Donald Trump teased Fox News Thursday night as he accepted the ‘Honorary Patriot of the Year’ award from emcee Sean Hannity at the Fox Nation Patriot Awards on Long Island. 

The 78-year-old was the final award recipient, with country singer Lee Greenwood appearing in-person to provide Trump with his usual walk-on music. 

Trump has sometimes bristled over Fox’s coverage of him – but it was a lovefest Thursday night.

On-air talent gushed about his incoming administration from onstage as the raucous crowd yelled and screamed that they loved him – and participated in a venue-wide YMCA dance.

‘You have incredible people at Fox. You have incredible people at every level of Fox,’ Trump said. ‘A couple I don’t like, but that’s alright.’

‘I shouldn’t name them, should I?’ he joked. ‘I don’t think so. I shouldn’t name them.’ 

Trump then gloated over his ‘spectacular’ and ‘tremendous’ election victory, saying it really started 72 days before, which marked the end of the Democratic National Convention and the start of general election season. 

‘No days off, no play, no golf, no nothing,’ Trump said. ‘I didn’t want to play golf because we have a very important job to do.’     

Trump said that while he was pleased with the results of the 2024 election – ‘this one was too big to rig,’ he boasted – he still wanted the country to move toward single-day voting using paper ballots. 

He mocked California for having a law where it’s illegal to ask voters to show their ID. Republicans, in contrast, support voter ID laws, while Democrats have generally stood against them.

Trump floated someone who could remedy that law.  

‘They’ll have to get Judge Jeanine. Where’s Judge Jeanine?’ Trump asked. 

Judge Jeanine Pirro was seated in the front section with droves of other Fox News personalities. 

‘The first thing we have to do is get the criminals out of our country,’ Trump said. 

He told the crowd that while he knew that inflation was going to be a hot button issue in the 2024 campaign, I ‘never believed it was as important as immigration and the border and stopping our country from being invaded.’

‘I always really felt that was bigger than inflation,’ he added. 

Trump noted how Tom Homan, the incoming ‘border czar’ and a upstate New York native, was ‘central casting.’   

‘I still have that throbbing feeling,’ Trump also said as he mentioned the famous immigration numbers ‘chart’ that he was looking at that allowed him to literally dodge a bullet that fateful day in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

Last week Trump dramatically said he’d levy a 25 percent tariff on both Canada and Mexico in order to push those countries to up their border control. 

‘And Justin came flying right in, because we talked about 25 percent tariffs. That’s just the beginning,’ Trump said. 

The president-elect was paid a visit by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Friday at Mar-a-Lago.  

Trump also reiterated his conversation with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

‘A very nice woman,’ Trump said. ‘And she said, “Why are you doing this to me?” I said, “Because you’re allowing criminals to pour into our country.”‘ 

‘It stopped. It happened so fast,’ the incoming president claimed. 

Trump also touted the speed in which he’s named Cabinet heads and other incoming government leaders. 

‘I think that you have seen more happen in the last two weeks than you’ve seen in the four years,’ he claimed. 

In an uncharacteristic move, Trump only addressed the crowd for just over 11 minutes.  

Hannity – a Long Island native – was the emcee of the evening.

He thanked God for Trump’s win. 

‘Many would argue that this election was a miracle. Thank you, Jesus,’ the longtime Fox News personality said. 

He joked that it the audience was filled with ‘Nazis’ and ‘fascists’ and imagined a world where Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, had won the election exactly one month ago. 

‘It would give you paper straws. I don’t like paper straws,’ Hannity complained.

There would be ‘taxpayer funded sex change operations,’ Hannity said, adding that ‘Tampon Tim’ – Republicans’ nickname for Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz –  would put menstrual products in ‘little boy’s bathrooms.’

‘That is one strange human being,’ Hannity said of Walz, after gesticulating wildly onstage in a Walz-like manner. ‘That is one weird human being,’ he added. 

Walz was picked to be on the Democratic ticket after labeling Trump and his running mate, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance ‘weird.’ 

Hannity then shuffled around onstage and asked the audience who he was.

A rainforest backdrop popped up making it more obvious. 

President Joe Biden went viral last month when he appeared to wander off into the Amazon, after delivering remarks in Brazil. 

Hannity also called attention to DailyMail.com’s exclusive reporting on second gentleman Doug Emhoff when cracking a joke.  

‘I have sources that told me – he had already picked out the new nanny,’ Hannity said.

Honorees included Stephanie Diller, whose husband, 31-year-old NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, was shot and killed in the line of duty by a career criminal.

Diller told the audience what she hoped about she and her son’s life: ‘Although we suffered this tragedy, we will not live a tragic life.’

‘Police officers are people,’ she reminded the crowd. ‘I want people to remember that.’

Retired Gen. Dick Cody was heralded for his helicopter piloting efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. 

Several dogs were brought onstage when the group Paws of War – the Nesconset, New York-based non-profit that connects rescue dogs with veterans – was given an award. 

During the ceremony, Cameron Clay, a member of the U.S. Army National Guard, was surprised by being reunited with Feyre, a dog he had watched over while deployed to Kosovo. 

While many of Fox’s personalities were seated together in the front of the audience, Pete Hegseth was noticeably absent – due to his Department of Defense secretary nomination. 

But Hegseth appeared in a reel multiple times, as two VA whistleblowers Paula Pedene and Dr. Sam Foote – were honored. 

Presenters Rachel Campos-Duffy and Will Cain made the most of that moment noting how someone who was just unscreen would make ‘one hell of a secretary of Defense.’  

Other awardees included Cameron Blasek, the winner of the Young Patriot Award, who didn’t back down when his school tried to have him remove his American flag from his pick-up truck. Blasek not only won but got other students and community members to join.  

Christian conservative actor Kirk Cameron was given the Culture Warrior award for pushing libraries that permit drag queen story hour to allow him to read his children’s book too. 

Also Clarence McCallister, given the Award for Bravery after he tackled a gunman who was trying to shoot a pastor. 

Fox Nation also honored Guillermo Estrada and Alex Jones, two of the University of North Carolina fraternity brothers who held up the American flag amid anti-Israel protests on campus.