Damn! Beat me to it! ...well done.
I might add, that if I were to be awarded the MoH, I would not accept it from this president, and I am the 7th generation of commissioned officers in my family.
Someone persuaded Swenson to get a shave and a haircut for today’s ceremony and also persuaded him to wear a 10th Mountain Division combat badge. I suspect that there is a backstory on that, Swenson was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, wore a 1st Division patch during the action and was only attached to the 1st Bn, 32d Infantry, a 10th Mountain Division unit. Both elements were in turn attached to the 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division. Given Swenson’s public remarks about the lack of support from the 1-32 Infantry TOC, I doubt that he would have worn their badge of his own volition. Someone is trying to paper over the C2 issues that is at the root of this incident.
The President, as usual, used the occasion to try to make political points. Pretty disgusting.