The Madness of King George: President Trump has repeatedly denounced the press as the “Enemy of the People,” but he has a big friend in Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.

  Trump phoned in to Bartiromo’s “Sunday Morning Futures” yesterday for a 45 minute interview, his first since losing the election Nov. 3^rd. Bartiromo opened with Trump’s claim of election fraud telling the President “The facts are on your side.”

  Actually, the facts are not on his side. His lawyers have repeatedly failed to present courts with evidence of fraud. They’re getting massacred in court. But Trump replied saying, “This election was a fraud; it was a rigged election.” Bartiromo did not ask for any proof.

  She then cozied up saying, “This is disgusting and we cannot allow America’s election to be corrupted.”

  Trump continued his fictions with the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re doing better than the rest of the world,” he said. Actually, the US is doing worst in the world, with four million more cases than India, the country running second, and 94,000 more deaths than Brazil, which has the second greatest number of fatalities.

  Then Trump took credit for developing vaccines. “I came up with vaccines that people didn’t think we’d have for five years,” Trump said. It was the pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Novavax that created the vaccines. Trump wasn’t in the lab. He was in the White House.

In Transition: President-elect Joe Biden loves women. Over the weekend he named an all-female communications team to be headed by Jen Psaki as press secretary. She was communications director in the Obama administration and these days you see her on the cable talkers.

  Reports say Biden plans to name Neera Tanden, currently chief executive of the Center for American Progress, to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Evidently she’s a bit of a liberal lightning rod, even within the Democratic party, and Republican leaders are already vowing not to confirm her.

Viral Sports News: The Denver Broncos yesterday had to bench their quarterback Jeff Driscoll after he tested positive for the coronavirus. Then they benched their three backups because they had been exposed to Driscoll.

  Without a thrower, the Broncos tasked if they could postpone the game against the New Orleans Saints. The NFL said no. Then they asked if they could go with their offensive quality control coach Ron Calabrese, a former college quarterback. No.

  The Broncos ended up tapping wide-receiver Kendall Hinton, an undrafted rookie member of the practice squad, who had played some quarterback in college.

  Hinton bravely completed one pass for 13 yards and threw two interceptions. New Orleans won 31-3.

Murder Inc.: Iranian news outlets report that the country’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed with a remote-controlled machine gun as he travelled with his wife Friday in an armored car on a desert highway.

  Fakhrizadeh’s escort detail had gone ahead to secure a destination when the scientist heard a noise, stopped, and got out of his car. He was taken out with the gun mounted on a Nissan vehicle that then exploded also, evidently, by remote control.

Tech Mogul Dies: Tony Hsieh, the former executive of Zappos.com who grew the into a billion dollar giant of shoe shopping and more, died of injuries suffered in a house fire November 18^th in New London, Connecticut. He was 46.

  Hsieh, whose name is pronounced “Shay,” was reported to be trapped in a burning waterfront home and was pulled out at 3:30 in the morning suffering burns and smoke inhalation. He was taken to the burn center at a hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

  Hsieh was a Harvard graduate who joined the company then called ShoeSite.com in 1999. Hechanged the name and grew Zappos until it was sold to Amazon for $1.2 billion in 2009. He later retired.

  The cause of the fatal fire is still under investigation.

The Bulletin Board: President-elect Joe Biden broke his foot Saturday playing with his dog. It’s described as a hairline crack in a bone and he’ll have to wear a walking cast. — The mysterious stainless steel monolith recently found in the Utah desert that became an instant destination for adventurers has just as mysteriously disappeared from where it stood in the mouth of a remote red rock canyon. – California Gov. Gavin Newsom once again blocked parole for Leslie Van Houten, one of the killers  in the Charles Manson cult who spread terror in 1969. Van Houten was 19 when she and other cult members stabbed to death a couple in the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders. She’s 71 now.

The Obit Page: David Prowse, the former British actor who played the evil Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy of movies, has died at age 85. He also had roles in “A Clockwork Orange,” “The Saint,” “Doctor Who,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” and played Frankenstein in three movies.

  In “Star Wars” Prowse only wore the costume. James Earl Jones provided the deep baritone voice.

Thought Cowboy: Actor John Voight, who came to fame in the 1969 movie, “Midnight Cowboy” and has made his living being told what to say, claims in a Twitter video that, “Let me warn you all that we are in great danger if we fall under a Biden administration.”

  Voight, who’s 81 now, said “Let the truth show itself, that President Trump is the only man that can save this nation.” 

  Obviously, he’s auditioning to play Trump in a movie.