Does Donald Trump think the Oscars revile America?

Does Donald Trump think the Academy Awards hates America? “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy asked the famous real estate mogul/reality-show host that question flat-out on Monday.

Peter Grier

Washington Editor

Peter Grier is The Christian Science Monitor's Washington editor. In this capacity, he helps direct coverage for the paper on most news events in the nation's capital.

Recent posts

• 06.14.13
  Jeb Bush says immigrants 'more fertile.' Is that right?
• 06.14.13
  Sarah Palin is back on Fox! Why is she reappearing now? (+video)
• 06.13.13
  Hillary Clinton makes a splash in Chicago, but not an overtly political one
• 06.13.13
  Chris Christie 'slow jams' the news: How'd he do?
• 06.11.13
  Edward Snowden: Who is he, and what kind of life is he leaving behind?

Related stories

• 

  'Zero Dark Thirty': Top 3 controversies from the Osama bin Laden film

• 'Lincoln' and 'Zero Dark Thirty' up for Oscars: Does Hollywood set US agenda? (+video)

• Culture Cafe Golden Globes: What do the winners mean for the Oscars?

Subscribe Today to the Monitor

Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS of
The Christian Science Monitor
Weekly Digital Edition

First, Mr. Doocy went through a buildup in which he asserted that both “Argo,” a movie about US diplomats escaping from Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis, and “Zero Dark Thirty,” a film about the US hunt for Osama bin Laden, got more love from the Golden Globes than from the Academy Awards. The directors of both these movies were nominated for Golden Globes, he pointed out. (That would be Ben Affleck for “Argo” and Kathryn Bigelow for “Zero Dark Thirty.” Mr. Affleck won.) Yet neither got a nod in that category from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

“Do you think both of those movies are being punished by Oscar because they’re pro-American movies?” Doocy inquired of The Donald, who often appears on the “Fox & Friends” show.

Without hesitation, Mr. Trump shot this theory down. “I don’t think so,” he said. Then he went on to praise NBC for how much it has built up the Golden Globe franchise over the years. (Is it a coincidence that Trump’s own “Celebrity Apprentice” appears on that network? You be the judge.)

1 | 2

Next