The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation has named Janet Elaine Parks, a d-list MAGA influencer, as the latest recipient of its annual Profile in Courage Award. According to Heather Cox Richardson, a historian who serves on the award selection committee, Parks was selected for the honor because of her “stunningly brave Facebook post that listed three things she doesn’t like about Donald Trump.”
The post, which Parks introduced with American flag and cross emojis and a warning that she was about to share an “UNPOPULAR OPINION,” was intended to set the record straight on how willing Trump’s supporters are to critique him.
“Let me be very transparent, because some of y’all genuinely think that Trump supporters believe this man is perfect…” she wrote. “We don’t… LOL.”
Richardson, who provides daily historical analysis of the threat Trump poses to democracy to her 3 million Substack subscribers, was skeptical at first. “When I read her opening thesis, I assumed Parks would list off a few of Trump’s inconsequential actions,” Richardson told a group of reporters gathered outside the Kennedy Library in Boston. “MAGA rhetoricians will often mildly critique minor missteps Trump makes, but ignore his more grievous offenses. I expected her list to include a litany of irrelevant issues, such as ICE’s recent seizure of a 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis or how Trump has upended decades of Republican orthodoxy over tariffs.”
What she read in Parks, however, shattered her expectations and restored her faith in the MAGA faithful’s ability to hold Donald Trump accountable for what matters most.
First on Parks’ “THINGS I DON’T LIKE ABOUT TRUMP (YES, REALLY)” list was “I hate how he uses social media sometimes.”
In her brave confrontation of Trump’s incessant Truth Social posting, Parks wrote, “I’m sorry… but the all caps, the impulsive posting, the unnecessary jabs… it gives ‘16-year-old with impulsive energy.’”
Second, Parks expressed frustration over the President’s demeanor, writing in poetic stanzas:
“I don’t like the cockiness…
The ‘no one’s ever done it before’
‘only I can do it’
‘nobody knew this until I said it’”
Determined not to rest on the bombshell she just dropped, Parks hammered home her point:
“I personally prefer facts over flexing..
Tell me what’s being done.
Tell me what’s coming.
But the self-praise… I can do without it.”
Upon reading the first two items on Parks’ three-item list, Richardson immediately began to type “I’ve found our winner” to the group chat of the Profile in Courage selection committee. But she paused before hitting “send,” worried she couldn’t persuade the committee to waive the requirement that the winner be a federal, state, or local official.
“But then I read her third item, and I knew my suggestion would be a slam-dunk,” Richardson said.
Before listing four things she likes about the President, Park concluded her blistering rebuke of Trump with:
“I can’t stand when he talks badly about people…
Even when he’s right…
I don’t like how he drags it out”
David Axelrod, a former Obama Administration official and selection committee member, agreed with Richardson’s assessment. “In his decade on the political stage, I have never seen any of Donald Trump’s supporters call out his flaws with such transcendent moral clarity,” Axelrod said. “As I read each subsequent item on her list, I couldn’t help but shout, ‘Wow! She really went there!’”
On Thursday, Bad Faith Media caught up with Donald Trump in Davos, Switzerland, to ask him what he thought of Parks’ admonishment of the most consequential and devastating aspect of his presidency—his tone. When our reporter showed him her post as he was walking into a meeting, he replied, “Who’s this piggy?”
After answering a few more questions about his groundbreaking deal to establish a military presence in Greenland (which the U.S. already has), Trump returned to Parks. “Wait, the Profile in Courage Award. That’s the thing they gave to Pence, right? We’re looking into that. I’m currently working on a naming-rights deal with the Kennedy Library. We’ll be reaching an agreement soon, and if we don’t, I’ll be imposing some backbreaking tariffs against Ireland and the Vatican.”
Trump’s Vice President, Mike Pence, received the Profile in Courage award in 2025 for bravely refusing to do something the law did not allow him to do.
We were unable to reach Parks for comment. Bad Faith Media, however, has obtained messages between the courageous social media influencer and the 7,000 equally brave people who shared her groundbreaking post. One read, “I’m on my way to apologize to daddy. I hope he’ll accept my trophy and let bygones be bygones. Also, btw, who the hell is John F. Kennedy?”
Rustle S’more lives in Boise, Idaho, where he researches Trump Derangement Syndrome in the members of his household. S’more lives alone and enjoys making recipes from the latest edition of his church’s cookbook, which was published in 1978.