Biden to award 17 Presidential Medals of Freedom, including to Steve Jobs, John McCain, Simone Biles

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Gabriel Giffords, and Denzel Washington

The White House announced that President Joe Biden will award 17 Medals of Freedom next week, among the notable names are Olympian Simone Biles, Oscar-winner Denzel Washington, and former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

This will be Biden's first time awarding the nation's highest civilian honor.

Three of the medals will be awarded posthumously, including to Sen. John McCain and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

McCain and Biden were close friends dating back to McCain's time as a military liaison to the Senate in the 1970s. The Republican famously refused to endorse Trump in 2016 and later dealt a decisive blow to Trump's efforts to repeal Obamacare. Trump continued to ridicule McCain even after his death. Cindy McCain, the late-senator's wife, endorsed Biden during the 2020 election. In 2021, Biden named her to an ambassador-level post at the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome.

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[Mike Nelson]

1. I think...

... that's nice, but I will always think of the Medal of Freedom being awarded to Rush Limbaugh. That diminished the award, in my mind. I wish there were some way it could be retracted.