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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDolly Parton twice turned down Trump's Medal of Freedom offer
Ever diplomatic, she didn't tell him to go pound sand, but.. ."I couldn't accept it because my husband was ill and then they asked me again about it and I wouldn't travel because of the COVID," she explained..."
I'm sure she could have arranged to accept the award remotely if she had wanted to have it bestowed by Trump. If he had offered it a third time, she probably would have said that she had to wash her hair!
https://www.today.com/popculture/dolly-parton-turned-down-presidential-medal-freedom-twice-t207752
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(51,974 posts)lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."
KarenS
(4,024 posts)political. So that's that.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)but that she's "not sure," and as you mentioned, that she doesn't want to seem political. I have a feeling that she might very well accept after waiting a discreet interval. We will have to wait and see.
KarenS
(4,024 posts)she really has an endearing personality. Thanks for 'making' me re-listen to that clip.
exboyfil
(17,857 posts)Obama:
Jack Kemp
Sandra Day O'Connor
George H.W. Bush
Robert Gates
Richard Lugar
And I bet most of the others well less ideological than Trump's picks. Nancy Brinker is a Republican for example and worked as a campaign bundler for Bush and as his ambassador to Hungary.
Staph
(6,245 posts)and then surprise her in the same way that Obama surprised him, with the Medal of Freedom.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)Right along with Betty White.
WA-03 Democrat
(3,017 posts)tried to grab her ass and then she would have had to kick his ass.
Blue Owl
(49,913 posts)Yeehah
(4,524 posts)Kudos to Dolly for having nothing to do with traitorous slime.