Trump Says Medal He Gave Billionaire Donor Is 'Much Better' Than One Given To Fallen Soldiers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : Trump, who awarded Adelson the Medal of Freedom in 2018 for her work as a doctor and her donations to facilities treating drug addiction, said:"I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
55% : Trump made the remarks during a campaign event at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he was introduced by Adelson herself.
51% : "You can hear what Trump said in the video below.
45% : A 2020 report from The Atlantic revealed that Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, in 2018.
29% : In 2015, Trump, then a presidential candidate, infamously said that McCain was "not a war hero" because "he was captured" and "I like people who weren't captured.
27% : At the time, four individuals with direct knowledge of the situation said that Trump declined the visit due to concerns about his hair being affected by the rain and a lack of importance placed on honoring American war dead.
25% : The Harris campaign issued a statement calling out Trump for "Dishonoring America's Greatest Heroes, Again":"Donald Trump knows nothing about service to anyone or anything but himself.
23% : "Trump has a history of disrespecting members of the military, particularly, as he put it, the "suckers and losers" who die in combat.
16% : During discussions with senior staff members on the morning of the planned visit, Trump questioned the necessity of visiting the cemetery, referring to it as "filled with losers."
11% : Perhaps most notably, Trump mocked the late Arizona Senator John McCain's injuries that came from his five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam from 1967 to 1973 and resulted in his inability to move his arms above his head for the rest of his life.

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