America's three-time Tour de France winner has received the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor on par with the Presidential ...

Conversely, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, created by President Harry S. Truman in 1945, is often given to recipients who reflect a president's "political and personal interests," according to ...

More than a dozen Congressional Medal of Honor recipients endorsed former President Trump in the 2024 presidential race. "We, 15 recipients of the Medal of Honor, having served this great nation ...

But Trump also didn’t vow the sort of old-school style that would return events like Medal of Freedom ceremonies to their consensus-oriented 20th-century origins. Biden did.

Biden’s Final Medal Winners Are Accomplished, Admirable — and Proof of His Political Failure The Medal of Freedom is supposed to be above politics. It’s become just another troll.

WASHINGTON - Veterans rebuked former President Donald Trump this weekend for saying the Presidential Medal of Freedom is "much better" than the military Medal of Honor because recipients of the ...

Trump draws intense criticism for calling civilian medal ‘much better’ than military award. The Veterans of Foreign Wars labeled the comments “asinine” and said they failed to recognize ...

“It’s the equivalent of the congressional Medal of Honor,” Trump said of the civilian Medal of Freedom. “But the civilian version, it’s actually much better because everyone that gets ...

Trump praised Adelson as “a committed member of the American Jewish community” and compared the civilian medal to the Medal of Honor, the highest military award for battlefield valor, which ...

Former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday described the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which honors civilians, as being “much better” than the Medal of Honor, because service members who ...