Trump to award Medal of Freedom to Babe Ruth, Elvis, Scalia, Hatch

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President Trump is set to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to seven people next week, including Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), musician Elvis Presley, baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth and the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The country's highest civilian honor, the medal is awarded to those who have "made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors," the White House said in a statement Saturday.

Others who are set to receive the medal Nov. 16 include Hall of Fame quarterback Roger Staubach, former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page and philanthropist Miriam Adelson, the wife of GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/416052-trump-to-award-orrin-hatch-elvis-presley-antonin-scalia-medal-of

[librechik]

1. it's Christmas! Of the Dead n/t

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[Coventina]

2. IOW: the award means nothing now.

[catbyte]

3. Mango Mussolini must've seen this pic:

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[Sneederbunk]

4. What? No Roy Cohn?

[Paladin]

5. Thereby confirming Scalia's permanent status as a piece of shit. (nt)

[octoberlib]

6. I'm surprised Al Capone didn't make the list

for putting up with “persecution” from the IRS.

[Ilsa]

7. Trump doesn't understand personal sacrifice,

so he awards it to names he recognizes and anyone who can write a check to him.

To be kind, though, Miriam Adelson is a doctor and known to be a generous philanthropist, humanitarian (I have no idea how she earned that title), so her new party favor isn't completely without merit.

[peekaloo]

8. A Purple People Eater on that list.

whom I wish would sack the bastard

[BlueStater]

9. So three dead guys and a zombie. n/t

[Bucky]

10. Just dead people, huh?

[TeamPooka]

11. Adelson should be the lead here Newspeople. This is paying off a crony with a MOF

[Snotcicles]

12. Giving one to Orrin Hatch taints them all. nt

[mtnsnake]

13. Babe Ruth and Elvis both just whispered to me from their graves that they reject Trump's award

considering who the awarder is.

[underpants]

14. Gee I hope it doesn't rain.

[meow2u3]

15. Will the next Medal of Freedom recipient be John Gotti?

or Fredo Corleone?

[onethatcares]

16. was going to be

Whitey Bulger but we know how that turned out.