Trump Says Medal He Gave Billionaire 'Much Better' Than Military Honor
By: Charisma Madarang
absolutely clueless...
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While addressing Jewish supporters gathered at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday — an event meant to center on fighting antisemitism — Donald Trump said that a civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom is better than the Medal of Honor because soldiers who are recognized are "in very bad shape … or they're dead."
The insulting remark was made as the former president lauded Miriam Adelson, a billionaire and widow of longtime Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson. Miriam has continued to to dump millions into Trump's campaign following Sheldon's death in 2021. The former president awarded Miriam with the Medal of Freedom in 2018, for work her as a doctor and her donations to facilities treating drug addiction.
"I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom," Trump said on Thursday evening. "That's the highest award you can get as a civilian. It's the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor," Trump added, referring to the highest military honor given for valor in combat.
"But civilian version, it's actually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers. They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets, or they're dead," Trump continued. "She gets it, and she's a healthy, beautiful woman, and they're rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she got it for — and that's through committees and everything else."
In 2020, The Atlantic reported that Trump privately disparaged U.S. service members and veterans during a trip to France in 2018 for the centennial anniversary of the end of World War I and reportedly called Marines who died at Belleau Wood "suckers" and soldiers who were buried at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery "losers."
The former president also drew backlash from both Republicans and Democrats in 2015 after he disparaged U.S. Senator John McCain, one of Trump's most outspoken Republican critics. At the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa that year, Trump claimed McCain was "not a war hero" and said, "I like people who weren't captured." McCain, a Vietnam veteran, was not only shot down and a prisoner of war from 1967-1973, but refused early release because other American soldiers had been imprisoned longer.
Trump, who avoided the military draft multiple times (as was common for men from wealthy families), has long resented the late senator. McCain criticized him during the 2016 presidential campaign and voted against repealing the Affordable Care Act, foiling Trump's plan to sink President Barack Obama's legislative achievement.
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trump completely devalued the MOF by awarding it to some undeserving jag-offs for political favors...
yea but, they were a couple hundred million reasons why, besides the ones General Kelley exampled.
meet me at the rotten egg and tomato stand on pennsylvania avenue when trump has his military parade...
Yeah, no sense wasting good food. My dad's friend, Brenda, we were saying something along those lines when they see trump signs in neighborhoods, which she is seeing less of, thank goodness. What can you do to deface them without getting arrested and I said throw rotten food and eggs at them.
Just when I thought that Trump had reached the bottom, he found a new bottom.
There is no low too low for that scum to sink to
I saw the remarks. They’re not good, but they’re maybe not quite as horrifying as people are characterizing them. I don’t think he meant to offend, in this case. He’s just not a very thoughtful individual.
To me, it’s another case of him not really understanding what he’s talking about, and another example of why he’s not intellectually qualified to be president.
It’s like he has a 3rd grade understanding of the awards. Thus, we have:
Ok, so they are “equivalent” in that they are the highest awards we have for each class of recipient. But what you have to do to earn the Medal of Freedom is not in the same universe as what you have to do to earn the MOH. As he referenced, it is “better” to get the MOF just because half the MOHs awarded are posthumous, and you generally don’t risk your life to get the MOF. So I get what was he was trying to say. It’s just not an accurate way to look at these things.
I would not consider these awards remotely equivalent in terms of deeds and honor. He’s just a stupid, stupid man.