The only question is why it took so long.
On Saturday, the Ku Klux Klan announced that President Donald J. Trump will receive the organization’s Man of the Year award for 2026 in a March 1st public ceremony on the steps of the Trump/Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
According to Elwood Nevins, the KKK’s Imperial Wizard, the award is given annually to “a genetically biological male born in the United States who has done the most in that year to advance the cause of the Klan.”
The honor was first bestowed upon film director D. W. Griffith in 1916, in recognition of his masterpiece, Birth of a Nation.
This year, the award will take the form of a painting — roughly the size of a single-car-garage door — that depicts an albino alligator riding a white stallion through a snowstorm in the Alps.
When a reporter wondered aloud if it might be premature to name the award-winner so early in the year, Nevins responded, “given recent events on social media of which I am sure you are aware, the only public figure who could overtake President Trump in 2026 would be President Trump himself. And we hope he does.”
For his part, the President told the press on Sunday, “I am prouder of this recognition than I am of the Nobel Peace Prize I won back in January. The painting that the Klan is going to give me is beautiful, just beautiful. Such a gorgeous thing. So much whiteness. Oh, how I love the whiteness. But let’s be honest. I deserve this award every year.”