VFW Slams 'Asinine' Trump Over His 'Crassly'-Made Medal Of Honor Remarks
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The veteran advocacy organization knocked Trump for calling a civilian award "much better" than the nation's highest military decoration.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars criticized Donald Trump’s “flippant” comments on Friday after the former president called a civilian award “much better” than the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration.
“These asinine comments not only diminish the significance of our nation’s highest award for valor, but also crassly characterizes the sacrifices of those who have risked their lives above and beyond the call of duty,” said VFW National Commander Al Lipphardt in a statement.
The statement from one of the nation’s largest veteran advocacy organizations comes after Trump compared the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, to the military decoration during a campaign event in Bedminster, New Jersey on Thursday.
“That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian, it’s the equivalent of the congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version,” said Trump as he referred to GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson receiving the civilian award from him in 2018.
He continued, “It’s actually much better because everyone gets the congressional Medal of Honor, that’s soldiers, they’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead. She gets it, and she’s a healthy beautiful woman. And they’re rated equal. But she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom.”
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