"Objectified" Fox News Documentary on Donald Trump Reveals the Man behind the Money

The TMZ founder humanizes the president-elect with a trip down memory lane



“OBJECTified: Donald Trump,” an hourlong special that aired Friday night on Fox News, is the puff piece to end all puff pieces.



It’s a stellar example of the kind of television you can make if you have zero interest in journalistic standards and pay no attention to quality. It is visually quite ugly, thanks to both production values apparently imported from a 1987 VHS tape and the lamentable interior design of president-elect Donald Trump’s penthouse in Manhattan.



It is a reality TV special — the first few minutes provide a preview of what’s to come, the stock footage and sourced interviews are used and re-used with impunity, and the music scoring the background seems designed for any other show (possibly the reunion episode of an obscure competition program about tattooing, or competitive travel).



Or, no: Perhaps instead, it is an infomercial. “OBJECTified” was filmed on September 15 — the same day that Donald Trump would tape the “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” appearance featuring the Muss — and features TMZ’s Harvey Levin walking around Trump’s residence, picking up strategically placed items that serve to provide humanizing tidbits about Trump’s past.



In hindsight, it was perfect timing: After his anointment by the Republican National Convention, and before the debates, where he was soundly defeated, and the “Access Hollywood” tape, which delivered him his worst poll numbers of the campaign. The items discussed include pictures of his father, the boardroom chair from “The Apprentice,” a letter sent to him from President Richard Nixon after he defended that president’s policies on “Donahue,” and his son Barron’s motorized car — a miniature Mercedes, of course, which in one photo is parked askew in front of Melania Trump’s gilded writing desk.