Elvis, Hatch, Babe Ruth, Scalia among Trump's Medal of Freedom recipients
Source: WaPo
President Trump on Saturday named seven individuals who will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom next week a list that includes three posthumous recipients.
The awardees are: Miriam Adelson, Orrin G. Hatch, Alan C. Page, Elvis Presley, Babe Ruth, Antonin Scalia and Roger Staubach.
The award, considered to be the top civilian honor, is bestowed to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security of national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors, according to a release by the White House.
The medals will be awarded on Nov. 16.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/10/elvis-hatch-babe-ruth-scalia-among-trumps-medal-freedom-recipients/
mastermind
(229 posts)how fitting.
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Trump really loves to surround himself with drunken reprobates, as you can see by looking at the last person he inflicted on the Supreme Court.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)eom
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)BlueInRedHell
(100 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)In this case, Trump only wanted to give the medal to Scalia, but surrounded him with others to hide the real selection. Honoring Scalia sends a strong racist message to the deplorables, since he was the driving force behind gutting the Voters Rights Act.
Rural_Progressive
(1,105 posts)for subtleness. I think these are people he feels will resonate with his base and that's about as far as his mind is capable of going.
LNM
(1,078 posts)I thought Alan Page was great on the Minnesota Supreme Court but I doubt he cares much for Trump using him to cater to black voters. Same thing he did with Mohammad Ali.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,725 posts)would be chosen (he wasn't even the chief justice), so I think his football career might also have been a factor, as well as his education foundation. Page said he was honored and he's leaving politics out of it. But I question Trump's motives.
Polly Hennessey
(6,798 posts)Oh, thats right, she and hubby donated 113 Billion to the Republican Party. How meritorious of her.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)in his list! The article mentions that she's been a supporter of a number of Holocaust memorial organizations, but given this, how can she possibly sleep at night backing this creep, let alone the hundreds of millions she has donated?
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Especially, after his acts of bravery during the Bowling Green Massacre.
yardwork
(61,634 posts)His medal will be awarded by proxy.
Clinical proof that he's deranged.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)djacq
(1,634 posts)THEREs NO BOTTOM.
amb123
(1,581 posts)George Lincoln Rockwell, Fritz Kuhn & Father Charles Coughlin.
Astraea
(468 posts)Freedom? This medal doesn't mean dick.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)For the ceremony
dflprincess
(28,079 posts)Or maybe he picked them because he doesn't have to worry about them snubbing him by refusing to show up for the ceremony.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)meadowlander
(4,395 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Fat chance Trump would every give her one after her wonderful Golden Globes speech about how cruel he was to that reporter...
captain jack
(316 posts)But he never meant sh*t to me you see
Straight up racist the sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother f**k him and John Wayne." -PE