Maybe it's just us, but it seems as though everyone was on pins and needles last week. Between the looming shutdown of the US government, fretting over President Trump praising anti-abortion efforts, and everyone wondering just why Ja Rule was a trending topic on Twitter (no, really, why?), there was a lot of cause for unease—and that feeling spread. Still, it’s not all worrying; at least Superman found his red trunks again. There is good in the world. And then there’s also all of this, too.

The Real Fake News Awards

What Happened: It took some time, but the president finally got around to releasing his Fake News Awards last week. It was not a smooth rollout.

What Really Happened: Remember earlier this month when Trump said he was going to hand out awards for the media he found to be the most dishonest in their reporting? No? That's OK. A lot has happened since then. Here's a refresher.

Though you shouldn't have forgotten about the awards, they were a big deal.

You see? Even President Trump says that the “importance” of the awards is “far greater than anyone could have anticipated.” Well, last Wednesday he made good on his promise. Kind of.

The problem—well, one of the problems, let’s be honest—was that the link didn’t work, which Twitter was very happy to note.

And when the link eventually did work, it wasn’t as if the reaction improved much. For one thing, people were upset that the awards were hosted by the official Republican Party site, and not the White House’s.

And then there’s the actual “awards” themselves, which turned out to be … not exactly awards?

Sure, the stunt got a lot of media coverage, but when the president fails at fact-checking his own declarations of Fake News, everything really starts to look like it's happening in the Upside Down—or Irony Land.