Ivanka to Games. NBC: “We won’t broadcast ‘fake news’"

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Ivanka Trump Representing U.S. Delegation at Winter Games Closing Ceremonies

NBC sells TV coverage rights to Fox

Shortly after the White House announced that Ivanka Trump, a self-described “winter-sports enthusiast,” will be flying to Pyeongchang, South Korea, to lead the U.S. presidential delegation at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games (assisted by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee "Colonel" Sanders), NBC in a statement on Thursday said that the network had sold the rights to televising the closing ceremony to Fox News.

“NBC has been a major target of President Trump’s claim of broadcasting “fake news.” We take those charges seriously. Given that the president’s statement that in Ivanka ‘we cannot have a better, or smarter, person representing our country’ is inherently false (or fake, in presidential parlance) we felt that we could not, in all good conscious, televise this fake news event. As such, we have sold the rights to the broadcast to a more appropriate network, Fox News.”

A spokesman for Fox confirmed that the network would indeed be carrying the Ivanka closing ceremony, announcing that the coverage would be co-anchored by Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. Special color commentary will be handled by the Fox and Friends team of presidential sycophants Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade, as neither Hannity nor Ingraham is capable of color commentary.