Trump calls civilian presidential medal 'much better' than top military honor

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Trump awarded Miriam Adelson the medal of freedom in 2018.
63% : "[The medal of freedom is] actually much better because everyone [who] gets the congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers," Trump said.
56% : "Trump awarded the medal of freedom to Mariano Rivera, a former baseball player who hosted an exclusive fundraiser for him, and to Roger Penske, a billionaire businessman who has donated more than $1m to pro-Trump organizations.
47% : I like people who weren't captured," Trump said in an interview.
45% : Speaking at a campaign event on Thursday, Trump made the claim as he addressed Miriam Adelson, the widow of Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson.
36% : "Trump has a long history of denigrating service members.
20% : Trump also called the dead military members "suckers" for getting killed.
20% : During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump attacked the gold star family of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son, Cpt Humayun Khan, was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004.
17% : In 2020 the Atlantic reported that Trump had canceled a planned visit in France to an American military cemetery near Paris because it was "filled with losers".
4% : And Trump also repeatedly criticized the late John McCain, the Republican senator who ran for president against Barack Obama in 2008.

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