The President Plays Through While Our Nation Suffers

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In honoring a couple of golfers who have backed him, Trump has devalued the Presidential Medal of Freedom, just as he has the presidency itself.

BY HOWARD TULLMAN, GENERAL MANAGING PARTNER, G2T3V AND CHICAGO HIGH TECH INVESTORS

The fact that the Donald Trump "show" has been finally and definitively canceled is small solace. It doesn't relieve us of the burden to memorialize and document all of his perversions and those of all of his enablers. The damage he has done is almost incalculable. The way he has systematically tried to disparage and destroy long-standing traditions and programs across the country is beyond regrettable. He has cheapened the achievements of people who have been previously recognized and honored by extending his clown show into every institution. His grotesque tributes, awards and honors would be simply snide and bad jokes (and maybe in his warped mind that's exactly what they are) if they weren't draped with historical dignity and seriousness.

In a closed-door ceremony at the White House the day after the deadly insurrection at the Capitol that he provoked, Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our highest civilian tribute, to three golfers: Annika Sorenstam, Gary Player, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias. The first is Swedish, the second South African, the third, deceased. They seem to have been honored for being more proficient at golf than the president. (To be fair, Zaharias was an Olympian and professional golf pioneer.) Yet this is simply more icing on the cake of insults and injury from the fat fake who has played golf more than 300 days since the start of his term.

The Professional Golfers Association of America, on the other hand, yanked the 2022 PGA Championship from the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster course. "It's become clear that conducting the PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster would be detrimental to the PGA of America brand," said Jim Richerson, PGA of America's president.

Trump has turned the Medal of Freedom into a trinket and handed them out like carnival prizes, especially to his most odious enablers. He's even outdone himself by proposing to award this once prestigious honor to two lowlife politicians, Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan, whose only distinctions have been the depths of their own craven and self-serving depravity, their gross political ambitions, and their steadfast sycophancy and irrational support for Trump's ongoing lunacy. Nunes was the crooked committee chair for the House Intelligence Committee who had to recuse himself from any participation in the Russia probe after he allegedly shared classified information about the investigation with Trump.

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