Posted on 07/01/2022 11:12:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Joe Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 people, including former Rep. Gabby Giffords, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and U.S. soccer player Megan Rapinoe, the White House announced Friday.
Biden will present the medals at a White House event on July 7. The medals, the country’s highest civilian honor, are awarded at the discretion of the president to people who have made a significant cultural impact or great contributions to the country or world.
Biden will also awards medals to actor Denzel Washington; Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen Muslim U.S. Army captain; and Sandra Lindsay, a New York nurse who was among the first in the country to receive the Covid vaccine.
Three other recipients will be awarded the medal posthumously: the late Sen. John McCain, who served in the Senate and House for decades and became the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2008; Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, Inc.; and Richard Trumka, who served as president of the AFL-CIO.
Giffords, who served as a congresswoman from Arizona, was shot in at a constituent event in her state in 2011. She survived and became a major advocate on gun violence prevention efforts. Biles is the most decorated gymnast in American history, with 32 Olympic and World Championship medals, and Rapinoe is an Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion.
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And notorious quitter...
Well, at least he got a couple of them right. Nothing for Scalise?
And Rapipoe who has said repeatedly that she hates America
Medal of Freedom now reduced to Crackerjack box prize status.
Giffords is a big supporter of Rats’n’Rinos, and opposes the freedoms that the 2nd Amendment guarantees.
So yes, of course she gets a medal.
🤣 Making meaningless awards ever more meaningless. What a (p)resident eh?
Hey now. She and markelly giffords constantly remind us they support the 2nd amendment. Just not for peons. You know, everyday, law abiding citizens.
“Medal of Freedom now reduced to Crackerjack box prize status.”
I was thinking the same thing. Similar to CA drivers licenses and voter registeation-like candy.
Very glad that Trump awarded Rush his while he was still alive.
Megan Rapinoe deserves a HUGE booby prize—NOT a “medal of freedom”!!!!
She is the epitome of “filthy and disgusting”!!!!
I have concluded with certainty that this black-hearted American-Hating, racist administration is bent on tearing down every institutional vestige of history, morality, prosperity, and respect this country has built and garnered in its history.
I believe they know their time is short, and are accelerating their efforts to inflict as much damage and make as much of it so impossible to repair, as to render it permanent.
I cannot say aloud what I think should happen to those vile people.
not bowe bergdahl? maybe obama gave him one.
A group out of the cantina scene in Star Wars...
Oh boy...this will no doubt trigger the Babylon Bee into a great take-off.
Maybe she should go to Russia.
You sound exactly like me.”Kudos”!
I fully expected to see Jussie Smollett on the list.
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