President Donald Trump has simply 16 days remaining within the White Home, and in these ultimate two-plus weeks, together with a slew of sleazy pardons and democracy-subverting tweets, he is also reportedly planning to brighten his most unflinching sure males with awards. Trump is anticipated to bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom upon California Rep. Devin Nunes and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan. The 2 congressmen have been on the entrance line of Trump’s conspiracy-addled, reality-bending efforts over the previous 4 years and have distinguished themselves as Trump loyalists to their core, putting the pursuits of the president, and the perks they obtain as a consequence, above all else. Nunes, because the rating Republican member of the Home Intelligence Committee, earned his stripes serving to Trump duck and dodge, confuse and obfuscate, all through the Mueller investigation.
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The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civilian honor, courting again to 1963, and one which has traditionally been reserved for actually extraordinary contributions to the nation and the world, spanning arts and tradition, politics, science, and sports activities. A sampling of previous recipients: Neil Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Frank Sinatra, Mom Teresa, Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Babe Ruth, and Elvis Presley.* An esteemed listing that may now be joined by an undistinguished congressman from California’s undistinguished 22nd Congressional District and the person representing a contorted, gerrymandered suburban Ohio district who has been accused of failing to intervene within the sexual abuse of faculty wrestlers whereas he was a wrestling coach at Ohio State.
These newest awards, if they arrive to fruition, coming after Trump’s honoring of right-wing shock jock Rush Limbaugh with the medal in 2020, as soon as once more present Trump’s contempt for earned accomplishment and his willingness to make use of the facility of his workplace to weaponize the trimmings of that accomplishment. By bestowing the legitimacy that comes with such an award upon two people so clearly undeserving, Trump demeans previous and future winners and as soon as once more blurs the excellence between distinctive and atypical. If everybody might be distinctive by fiat, then maybe nobody actually is. That has at all times been an underlying logic of Trump’s candidacy, presidency, and life.
Correction, Jan. 4, 2021: This submit initially misspelled Muhammad Ali’s first title.
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