The 2025 Hoax-Of-The-Year Award

The 2025 Hoax-Of-The-Year Award - American Thinker

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It’s that time of year again: the tree is still up, the stockings have been emptied, there is a nip in the air, and we are looking ahead to the new year, wondering what it may bring.

You know what that means: ‘tis the season … for my Annual Hoax-of-the-Year Awards! A little late this year, as there was such an abundance of deceit from which to choose. So, hoax fans, let’s get after it!

Each successive year seems to bring us more hoaxes than the previous one, and, happily, this year was no exception.

But first, let’s acknowledge that last year’s winner will be incredibly hard to top. The Government Employees Are ‘Public Servants’ Hoax is one of the greats of all time.

That said, my personal favorite hoax of 2024 was The Secret Service Couldn’t Go On The Roof In Butler Because The Slope Was Too Steep Hoax. Seems it wasn’t too steep for Thomas Crooks, as spindly as he was — and loaded down with a rifle to boot. Nor was it too steep for the authorities who, just a couple of days after the assassination attempt on President Trump, were atop it in street clothes, calmly walking around and hosing it down, washing any remaining evidence away.

A proper review of hoaxes for this year would note that several hoaxes really took it on the chin in 2025.

Among these are the Universities Are Unbiased Bastions of Higher Learning And Are Greatly Beneficial To Their Students Hoax, the Electric Vehicles (EVs) Will Soon Outnumber Those Powered By Internal Combustion Engines Due To Overwhelming Consumer Demand Hoax, and the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has A Functioning Cerebral Cortex Hoax. (During a CNN town hall in October, AOC called for “drinkable” air and said that “rivers were on fire” because of an accounting firm.)

Each of these have been thoroughly -- and hopefully permanently -- debunked.

On to the 2025 candidates.

First off, we have the “New York Jets Are An Actual, Legitimate NFL Organization Hoax.” While this hoax isn’t widely promulgated or believed, it still deserves mention due to its sheer preposterousness.

The “I’m Sticking It To The Man If I Key A Tesla Hoax” was rampant for a time early in the year. The truthful rejoinder to that statement would be, “No, you’re just damaging someone else’s car because you are an asshat of epic proportions. You have vandalized private property, and you’re on camera, moron.”

The “Trump Is Devastatingly Implicated In The Epstein Files Hoax” turned out to be a nothingburger, at least to this point, though several Democrats were, in fact, implicated.

Then we have the “ICE Is Targeting Hard-working, Law-abiding Everyday Folks Hoax.” No, ICE is targeting aliens and criminals (who came here illegally for starters) from foreign lands whose beliefs, mores, and religion are often antithetical to ours … and those of a free, representative republic. In other words, potential Democrat voters. That is the only reason Democrats are so mad about ICE. If/when they retake power, they will invent reasons to lock up their political opponents.

More recently, we have seen the “We Are Terribly Worried That Trump Will Routinely Issue Illegal Orders To The Military Hoax,” as carefully constructed by the Seditious Six.

Although these borderline-treasonous clowns want us to believe they are all acting solely at the behest of their morally superior hearts and their deep and undying love for America and democracy, in reality, they are partisan hacks trying to sow division and distrust amongst the troops and citizens while setting Trump up to be impeached yet again.

A somewhat related and popular deception that was recently promulgated by the mainstream media is the “Trump Is Destroying The East Portico Of The White House Solely To Build A Ballroom For Himself And His Wealthy Friends Hoax.”

This is untrue. Trump will nearly be out of office when the renovation is completed. And yet he is paying for much of the costs of this much-needed renovation himself. The White House has not heretofore had a ballroom where many guests could congregate at once in a place befitting a great country. In fact, some past events have largely been held outside, with Satellite-brand porta-potties functioning as ad-hoc bathrooms amid the cattle tents.

Up next is the “Charlie Kirk Was A Bigot/Fascist Hate-Monger Who Deserved His Fate Hoax.” This is perhaps the saddest and most despicable hoax on the list. Charlie was a largely self-taught young man who enjoyed engaging in civil debate with students on college campuses around the country, something that used to be expected and routine. He changed some hearts and minds, even while truly listening to those with whom he disagreed. And then he was shot.

There is a burgeoning ruse, put forth by the likes of Gov. Tampon Timmy “Glad Hands” Walz, that I call the “But For One Or Two Bad Apples, Somalis Are wonderful People, Peerless Entrepreneurs, And Greatly Enrich Our Society Hoax.” Hard to top that one, especially if you live in Minnesota.

The final two hoaxes are inextricably intertwined, and, unlike nearly all other hoaxes of years past or today, are being promulgated by many conservatives. The “We Are Soundly Defeating Wokeism Hoax” and the “Democrat Party Is On Its Last Legs Hoax” have been prevalent among Conservative Inc. types since Trump prevailed in the 2024 presidential election.

Neither of these is even remotely true -- and the latter is the single most dangerous hoax out there. Because today’s Democrat party is the biggest, most immediate, and clearly existential threat to America. If these Republicans don’t stop gloating, end the infighting, eliminate the faint whiff of anti-Semitism, and do whatever it takes to win, it is curtains for the Republican Party … and the republic for which it supposedly stands.

Obviously, these are not all of the hoaxes extant. Since the onset of the Obama-Biden-COVID era, hoaxes have gone mainstream and are virtually ubiquitous.

Nonetheless, the time has come, the big moment is here.

(Drumroll.)

The 2025 Hoax-of-the-Year is the “Democrat Party Is On Its Last Legs Hoax.” This is the one hoax I wish were true but demonstrably is not. (Check back with me after the 2026 midterm elections for verification.)

[Announcement: This is the sixth annual ‘Hoax-of-the-Year Awards.’ Some of the hoaxes have been quite humorous, while others — like this year’s winner — are not. Yet I feel like all are illustrative and useful in their own way. Therefore, I am going to spend time in 2026 constructing the Hoax Hall of Fame. Perhaps an online version at first, and — eventually — a physical location for the HHOF. Washington, D.C. seems like an obvious choice for the physical hall. Donations accepted.

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