Newsweek Article Rating

Trump offends veterans over Medal of Honor comment -- here are the facts

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    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    22% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Veterans for Responsible Leadership, a bipartisan super PAC, wrote that Trump thinks the Medal of Honor is "secondary to the medal he gives his billionaire funders.
58% : "It's actually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers," Trump told supporters.
57% : Trump awarded 24 individuals, including Adelson and allies such as Republican Ohio Representative Jim Jordan and former Representative Devin Nunes, now CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group.
55% : The judgment that the Presidential Medal of Freedom is "much better" appears to have been created by Trump.
52% : "Decorated Marine Corps pilot Lieutenant Colonel Amy McGrath, a former Senate and House candidate, posted on X, formerly Twitter: "Trump said the award he gave his rich donor was equal to & "even better than" the Medal of Honor.
43% : Newsweek has contacted media representatives for the Congressional Medal of Honor Society and Trump via email for comment.
24% : No way around it JD."Actor Wendell Pierce said on X that Trump had been "disrespectful" to veterans and owed them an apology.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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