Trump to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh

[octoberlib]

President Donald Trump plans to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the highest civilian award in the U.S. – to conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh after learning of his advanced cancer diagnosis, the president told television anchors at a private lunch.

Limbaugh, 69, revealed his cancer diagnosis on his popular radio program Monday afternoon, telling listeners that his treatment plan likely means “there are going to be days when I’m not able to be here.” A Florida resident himself, Limbaugh has repeatedly been spotted golfing with Trump at the president’s Mar-a-Lago beach club and dining at the clubhouse afterwards.

Trump told network anchors earlier Tuesday that he was saddened by the news of Limbaugh’s diagnosis and had extended a last-minute invitation for him to join the first lady in the gallery at the State of the Union, according to four people familiar with the conversation. The president also said he plans to award the Medal of Freedom to Limbaugh as soon as next week.


One person at Tuesday’s lunch said Trump appeared to be “ shaken up” by the news, and kept mentioning that he and Limbaugh saw each other in West Palm Beach, Fla. as recently as December, when the president was in town for an extended holiday stay.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/04/trump-presidential-medal-freedom-rush-limbaugh-110757

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. Loss of words

Well at least clean words.

[northoftheborder]

2. NOoooooooooooooooooo

[ZZenith]

3. And thereby making the medal meaningless for all time.

Every.single.thing.he.touches.

[PAMod]

9. My thoughts exactly.

[Blue_true]

14. My exact thoughts.

If you look at who Trump has given it to, the medal has lost all it's meaning and I don't think that future presidents get that back.

[misanthrope]

24. Trump has mainly honored sports figures

which tells you how his mind works. I don't think I saw any artists or philosophers or the like under his name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_recipients

EDIT TO ADD: He did give one to Elvis Presley.

[Mariana]

15. It's been meaningless for a long time. nt.

[ZZenith]

17. GW degraded it. Trump has obliterated it.

[GoCubsGo]

23. That bridge was crossed a long time ago.

Back when he gave one to Miram Adelson (Mrs. Sheldon), Tiger Woods, Urine Hatch, Fat Tony Scalia and Edwin Meese.

[2naSalit]

38. That's it.

Degrade everything we hold dear and piss all over it. We'll have to create a new honor to replace what this one once was.

[dflprincess]

4. Trump has made the award meaningless. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. He did give one to Alan Page,

but it was probably because he was a football player, not because he was a judge.

[Rollo]

5. Tar and feathers would be more appropriate for both of them...

[2naSalit]

39. +1

[cloudbase]

6. Any previous recipient should return theirs.

It is now worthless.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Thanks, Putin.

Fuck you, Trump.

Flushbo, hope you wellness and a long life. Other than that, fuck you, too.

[Newest Reality]

8. Well,

Let's just ruin any awards and medals we have while we are at it. Take the real meaning out of them and toss them around like cookie crumbs.

Th PMF is NOT a palliative medal you give to someone to make them feel better because they are dying of something. This is like spitting on the medal and Limbaugh has deserved nothing to deserve it, except in the cheap, superficial cesspool of Trumponia.

You would expect a cheap low-class actor/pretender to do something like this, but boo and hiss for desecrating the honor.

What's next? Oh, come on, what else can be cheapened and degraded enough to become something like a prop in a Three Stooges episode?

[Boomerproud]

34. I wouldn't be surprised if Kanye is in the mix.

Nothing shocks me anymore (a great old DUer)

[underpants]

10. Did he win a golf tournament or something?

Oh, yeah he saved AM radio .... because what would we do without AM radio?

[dalton99a]

11. Hannity will get one next

And then Dershowitz, Barr, Pompeo, etc.

[11 Bravo]

12. For distinguished service in the boinking of pre-adolescent Dominican boys ...

with an assist from illegally obtained boner drugs, here you go, Pigboy ... the highest civilian award this nation can bestow.

[ZZenith]

16. That's about the size of it.

I am so done with this clown and his acolytes.

So done.

[Roland99]

13. I feel ill.

[dustyscamp]

18. He's going to give one to McTurtle next

[a kennedy]

19. OMGAWD......you have got to be kidding???

[scarletwoman]

20. Dumpf and Pigboy make a lovely couple.

[misanthrope]

21. It's a travesty

But then again, Kissinger, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Weinberger and Ed Meese all received one, too.

[Brother Mythos]

22. Totally predictable and sickening.

[spanone]

25. Please tell me this is the Onion.

This award means nothing now...A piece of human excrement is about to receive it. It's worthless.

[NRaleighLiberal]

26. everything trump touches dies

[PJMcK]

27. Yeah, whatever

Everything from the Era of Trump will eventually have an asterisk.

If there's a future...

[Totally Tunsie]

40. This is my exact thought also.

Every Act, every Executive Order, every "accomplishment" Chump brings about will need an asterisk of explanation and disavowal. 2016-2020 will be the scourge of history where everything that actually happened will be subject to question and scrutiny. Future citizens will look back in horror over what these four years have done to our country.

[IcyPeas]

28. the king has spoken

this guy can do anything he wants and no one stops or even advises him. he is a one man wrecking ball.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. The award is now about as meaningful as a Cracker Jacks toy.

[LuvLoogie]

31. Ultimately, from whom to whom it is bestowed means more than the medal itself.

They can choose to enshrine bigotry in this manner. Just another thing to clean up by example with sustained work. The adornment of their grossness only amplifies their rot.

[Atticus]

32. Will Alex Jones be next? nt

[KWR65]

33. Because he was a loud mouth on AM Radio stations?

I'm not impressed.

[FiveGoodMen]

37. Because he helped turn America Nazi

[sarisataka]

42. A more appropriate award

Would be a Deutsches Kreuz in silver

[spanone]

35. The most divisive, 'go fuck yourself' president I hope we ever see.

[malaise]

36. A medal of freedom for a well known racist

[Mr. Sparkle]

41. Stop all funding to the whitehouse Now, shutdown the government until after the election!

[safeinOhio]

43. Posthumously ? N/t

[NCLefty]

44. He sold one of these to a donor's wife. It's already rendered meaningless.

See: Sheldon Adelson