President-elect Donald Trump receives the 'Patriot of the Year' award at Fox Nation's Patriot Awards

The incoming president was honored alongside other heroes at the sixth annual Fox Nation Patriot Awards

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President-elect Donald Trump accepted the "Patriot of the Year" award Thursday night at Fox Nation's sixth annual Patriot Awards. 

"We're going to get things straightened out in this country," Trump said, accepting the honorary award.

Trump's year has been marked by a series of legal battles, two assassination attempts and a historic campaign that resulted in his victory in the 2024 presidential election against Vice President Kamala Harris.

"We had just a spectacular election. They were thinking it was going to be close, and it wasn't close," he said.

During his remarks, Trump also reiterated his campaign commitment to addressing immigration, the economy and national security.

"We're going to achieve it again and very fast. It's going to be very fast because we have no choice. But we're going to do something that I've been talking about for eight years. We're going to do it again. We have to do it again. We're going to make America great again." Read more and see videos here.

What the Trump Nominees Have Not Done -- And Will Not Do

Victor Davis Hanson / Townhall Opinion

Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees.

Many of Trump's picks are well outside the usual Washington, D.C./New York political, media, and corporate nexus.

But that is precisely the point -- to insert reformers into a bloated, incompetent, and weaponized government who are not part of it.

Trump's nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, is already drawing severe criticism.

His furious enemies cannot go after his resume since he has spent a lifetime in private, congressional, and executive billets, both in investigations and intelligence.

Instead, they claim he is too vindictive and does not reflect the ethos of the FBI.

But what will Patel not do as the new director?