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brooklynite

(94,452 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 09:55 PM Feb 2020

WHITE HOUSE Trump to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh

Source: Politico

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.

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

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WHITE HOUSE Trump to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2020 OP
Oh my god PatSeg Feb 2020 #1
Vomit and puke vlyons Feb 2020 #29
I think he's feeling truly unleashed PatSeg Feb 2020 #30
God fuckin damn him. Traildogbob Feb 2020 #2
Someone here earlier posted a thread predicting this. dewsgirl Feb 2020 #3
As always... maddogesq Feb 2020 #4
Fasten your seat belts. This is only Golden Raisin Feb 2020 #5
yep Demovictory9 Feb 2020 #31
To a radio hack? Ahpook Feb 2020 #6
All current recipients should return theirs. not_the_one Feb 2020 #7
Devaluation... BlueIdaho Feb 2020 #8
Remember how moved we all were when the Real President gave it to his Real Vice President? yellowdogintexas Feb 2020 #13
Thanks! BlueIdaho Feb 2020 #16
How about....... MyOwnPeace Feb 2020 #20
Hey now... BlueIdaho Feb 2020 #21
Oh, wow! MyOwnPeace Feb 2020 #22
I know - right? BlueIdaho Feb 2020 #23
Trump and Limbaugh are much alike: rustbeltvoice Feb 2020 #9
Rushbo can take it to his child prostitution resort areas along with his supply of someone else's Vi keithbvadu2 Feb 2020 #10
This is actually very dangerous. zentrum Feb 2020 #11
How Low Can You Go? McKim Feb 2020 #12
NONE I said long ago (about 15000 lies ago) that there was no low to which yellowdogintexas Feb 2020 #15
The hell you say! Floyd R. Turbo Feb 2020 #14
So what's next? lordsummerisle Feb 2020 #17
lmao iamthebandfanman Feb 2020 #18
any good thoughts I might have had towards Rush Limpy just went away 47of74 Feb 2020 #19
Don't let it get to you people as that is what Trump wants. Instead focus on kicking all of Putin's cstanleytech Feb 2020 #24
So that's why he invited Chuch Todd et al to the White House... B Stieg Feb 2020 #25
he did it during the fucking SOTU Kali Feb 2020 #26
For what, exactly? Grokenstein Feb 2020 #27
Just for being Pus Windbag jmbar2 Feb 2020 #32
And thus a role model for Trump himself (nt) muriel_volestrangler Feb 2020 #38
That award has lost all meaning CanonRay Feb 2020 #28
The people calling everything a participation trophy's have no problem with this dustyscamp Feb 2020 #33
From one piece of shit to another.... SergeStorms Feb 2020 #34
If we manage to elect a Democrat as President in Nov. Stonepounder Feb 2020 #35
*vomit* sakabatou Feb 2020 #36
Medal of free dumb Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 #37
Limbaugh should get a medal for that FAKE feigned "surprise" face he put on at the SOTU Bengus81 Feb 2020 #39
Well, if there's no way to avoid it... at the very least I hope it's awarded posthumously. NurseJackie Feb 2020 #40
Time to ask the question... Can they be rescinded? JHB Feb 2020 #41
It's the trump-limbaugh medal to me from now on, no matter who gets it. (nt) Paladin Feb 2020 #42
Who'd a thunk it??? ResistantAmerican17 Feb 2020 #43

PatSeg

(47,351 posts)
1. Oh my god
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 09:58 PM
Feb 2020

He's just doing that to say "Fu*k you" to anyone who opposes him. Everything now, more than ever, is just about payback. What a truly disgusting human being.

PatSeg

(47,351 posts)
30. I think he's feeling truly unleashed
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 12:04 AM
Feb 2020

after the impeachment hearings, that now he can really do or say anything and get away with it. He probably also thinks Biden won't be his opponent come November because of the Iowa Caucuses.

Every day I think, it can't possibly get worse, but then it does.

Golden Raisin

(4,607 posts)
5. Fasten your seat belts. This is only
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:13 PM
Feb 2020

the beginning. Once he's formally acquitted by the Senate the vengeance, vendettas, paybacks, enemy lists and awarding scum-buckets like Limbaugh is going to increase and augment.

Ahpook

(2,749 posts)
6. To a radio hack?
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:15 PM
Feb 2020

This is more bizarre by the moment.

Take the keys from this motherfucker. He is driving drunk!

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
7. All current recipients should return theirs.
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:17 PM
Feb 2020

I would feel dirty if I was one of his peers.

They can always say they received it, but it would say so much more about their character if they refused to be associated in any way with flush.

yellowdogintexas

(22,243 posts)
13. Remember how moved we all were when the Real President gave it to his Real Vice President?
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:28 PM
Feb 2020

And how moved Joe was? What a moment!

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
21. Hey now...
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:56 PM
Feb 2020

That’s a step above.... I mean making all those employees ask for you zip code and cross sell you batteries? C’mon now...

keithbvadu2

(36,722 posts)
10. Rushbo can take it to his child prostitution resort areas along with his supply of someone else's Vi
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:20 PM
Feb 2020

Rushbo can take it to his child prostitution resort areas along with his supply of someone else's Viagra.

That will impress them.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
11. This is actually very dangerous.
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:23 PM
Feb 2020

Sickening assault on the medal, on fact based reality, and on yet one more norm of civilization.

McKim

(2,412 posts)
12. How Low Can You Go?
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:23 PM
Feb 2020

How low can you go? This really takes the cake!!!!! There are no limits to their depravity!

yellowdogintexas

(22,243 posts)
15. NONE I said long ago (about 15000 lies ago) that there was no low to which
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:29 PM
Feb 2020

he will not stoop I hate it that I am right

iamthebandfanman

(8,127 posts)
18. lmao
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:42 PM
Feb 2020

you guys know hes trolling us, right?
he could care less about that dipshit, this is just to take a jab at the left. :p

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
19. any good thoughts I might have had towards Rush Limpy just went away
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:45 PM
Feb 2020

Both he and Trumpy can go fornicate themselves.

cstanleytech

(26,273 posts)
24. Don't let it get to you people as that is what Trump wants. Instead focus on kicking all of Putin's
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 11:24 PM
Feb 2020

Republican lap dogs in the Senate and House to the curb as then no matter what happens to Trump he will be neutered if we win big there.

Grokenstein

(5,721 posts)
27. For what, exactly?
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 11:43 PM
Feb 2020

...Developing cancer?
...Calling for the execution of drug abusers until his own drug abuse became public?
...Visiting rentboy country with a bottle of Viagra?
...Recommending poor kids "dumpster dive" instead of getting free school lunches?
...The whole "phony soldier" debacle?
...Calling birth control "slut pills"?
...Just to "pwn teh libs"?

It's the last one, of course.

SergeStorms

(19,190 posts)
34. From one piece of shit to another....
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 01:10 AM
Feb 2020

an award for being the biggest piece of shit. Now, if Trump would die as painfully and as quickly as Rush Lymphoma-balls it would be a wonderful, wonderful world. God, here's your chance to prove your existence. I'm callin' you out, big guy!

Sorry for the hate-filled screed, but I hate these creatures with every quark of my being. My only wish is that I had 1500 radio stations and a TV network to spread my feelings. Oh, and to have Trump die a horrible painful death, and relatively soon. Can't forget that wish as well.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
35. If we manage to elect a Democrat as President in Nov.
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 01:38 AM
Feb 2020

one of the first acts the Pres takes would be to retire the Presidential Medal of Freedom and come out with a new and different medal (since the current medal ain't worth squat now). Then posthumously upgrade all recipients who have passed away and upgrade all living holders to the new medal except Rush Limburger.

(If Biden wins, he should probably wait till he is out of office and let the next Democrat President upgrade it for him.)

Bengus81

(6,930 posts)
39. Limbaugh should get a medal for that FAKE feigned "surprise" face he put on at the SOTU
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 07:24 AM
Feb 2020

When Golfer in Chief told him he was going to get his medal then. Gosh...he just HAPPENED to be there,gosh he just HAPPENED to be setting next to Melania,gosh she just happened to have the Medal.

What a load of put up shit...........

JHB

(37,157 posts)
41. Time to ask the question... Can they be rescinded?
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 07:47 AM
Feb 2020

And if not, maybe that option should be opened.

Sure, it's a low-priority item on the Undo The Damage list, but it's on it.

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