Sean Hannity has a message for conservatives: Just because Hannity has had his head up Donald Trump’s behind all these months and has given him hours of fawning air time, that’s no reason to blame him for Trump’s success. Instead, get over it and get on board the Trump train!

Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Hannity has stopped pretending he’s not promoting Trump and is offering oh, so much sympathy to conservative Trump haters – all in the name of trying to get them to do what Hannity wants: don’t hold his role in Trump’s success against either of them.

Even if I were a conservative, I think I would have been hard-pressed not to tell Hannity to take his sudden (self-serving) spate of solicitude and shove it where the waterboarding don’t shine.

“I am extremely sympathetic in terms of how people’s feelings are,” Hannity said. Sure he is. So long as his guy came out on top. Because if Hannity’s favorite birther and Mafia pal loses to Clinton, Hannity will not be a hundredth as gracious as he was now asking others to be.

But, actually, it was really about himself.

“How did a guy like Mr. Trump, a man who defied all conventional political gravity actually win the nomination and take out 16 others?” Hannity began. But instead of answering the question, Hannity started making excuses for himself. Guilty conscience, Sean?

HANNITY: Now, some of you out there, you’re blaming, let’s see, Fox News or blaming talk radio. By the way, personally, I wish I had that much power and that much influence. I don’t. Neither does anybody else. If I did, Obama never would have been president.

Reality check: Hannity’s influence is over Republican voters, not the people who elected Obama.

HANNITY: Now, those of you who have that analysis, I think it’s extremely shallow and, by the way, also predicated on this notion that well, people are stupid, people were bamboozled. Sorry, I don’t buy that for one second.

Does that mean we can expect Hannity to stop complaining about the “Obama-mania media,” which will surely turn into the “Hillary/Obama media” before long?

HANNITY: Do you really believe people voting for Trump in Indiana had no clue that it was not conventional? Do you really believe the voters there didn’t see whatever flaws that he might have had? Do you really believe they didn’t see the mistakes that were talked about ad nauseam all over TV and radio? In spite of all of that, the voters in Indiana chose him. The question is why?

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Let me tell you my theory. Now, Trump is a direct result of […] the institutional failure of Republican and Democratic governance.

Hannity went on to rail about the ills of the country that neither Republicans nor Democrats have fixed. And for argument’s sake, let’s just say he’s right. But it also conveniently let Fox and himself off the hook.

But then Hannity got to the blatant Trump commercial:

HANNITY: Now, Trump was, really the only candidate, for example, he took on controversial issues. For example, Muslim immigration. He spoke honestly about the concerns that people were having about this country letting in Syrian refugees, knowing that our director of national intelligence, our FBI director and others were saying ISIS will infiltrate the Syrian refugee population. He said he wants to build up our military, he wants to take care of our veterans and now Republican voters, with full knowledge of who Donald Trump is and was are saying, “We’ll take our chance. We’ll go with Donald Trump.”

What Hannity didn’t mention is that Trump still hasn’t cracked 50% approval rating among Republicans.

Hannity went on unabashedly singing Trump’s praises before he generously announced that “some conservatives” have “a right” to “have concerns about Donald Trump.” So Hannity had some advice for Trump on how to win them over. One of them proved that Hannity is as ignorant as his BFF birther: “create health care savings accounts.” Because health care savings accounts have been in existence since 2003.

And then, Hannity brought on not someone who has been swayed from Cruz or Rubio to Trump but Pat Buchanan, who was Donald Trump before Trump was.

I’d like to think this ham-handedness bodes well for the continued civil war in the GOP but we’ll have to see.

Watch it below, from the May 4 Hannity.