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Not Belichick
Bill Belichick, the cheatingest coach of the New England Patriots football team, will be the next Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, as he takes his position shoulder to shoulder with such giants, icons and role models of American culture as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk and Nobel Prize winning writer Elie Wiesel.
That’s right, the man who honed cheating to a fine art on the football field has been picked by the man who has raised the level of dishonesty and bigotry to new and greater heights in the White House. Trump has managed to denigrate everything he has touched, the anti-Midas, the man with the feces-laden touch.
President John Kennedy, who created the award in 1963, is surely turning over in his grave at the news that a professional football coach who was known to smile only once and that is highly debated and reportedly once said that cheating is as American as apple pie, is to be highlighted for having made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
Trump has awarded 24 medals since 2017. Half of them have gone to athletes or coaches and most of the others have been presented to people who financially or philosophically supported Trump, including such great Americans as Rush Limbaugh, one of the loudest voices for Trump’s crazy and rejected claims that the election was rigged; Devin Nunes, the Republican congressman from California who also shared Trump’s outlandish claims about voter fraud, that led directly to the riots at the Capitol; and Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, who sharpened his reputation as the co-meanest man in America during the impeachment hearings, his meanness only rivaled by Sen. Ted Cruz, Republican from Texas, who is reportedly disliked by everyone who ever met him and whose father participated in the Kennedy assassination, according to Trump.
Who’s next? Maybe Trump will honor Albert Speer for his contributions to architecture; that lovable “angel of death,” Josef Mengele for his advances in medicine; possibly a posthumous honor for Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for his love of negroes; and there’s likely an honor coming for Rudy Giuliani for his massive contributions to jurisprudence and the art of dripping hair dye and farting.
Trump’s track record for inviting celebrities to the White House is equally horrendous, playing host to people like Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Paul Simon and Esperanza Spalding. Oh wait, they visited President Obama.
Trump’s guest have included such luminaries as Kid Rock, the self-proclaimed “King of White Trash” and Ted Nugent, the right wing nut job who once said that apartheid in South Africa wasn’t so bad because black South Africans “still put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their butts with their hands.”
I feel like I’m living in a combined update of “A Clockwork Orange,” “Night of the Living Dead” and “Village of the Damned.” Maybe it’s unfair to be so critical of a man who proudly said he doesn’t read books. He probably thinks Itzhak Perlman is a jeweler; that Stephen Hawking was an ornithologist; and that Desmond Tutu designed clothing for little girls who dance ballet.
He undoubtedly thinks Beethoven was a large St. Bernard dog; that a tattoo of a naked woman wrestling with a large snake is high art; and that snuff films were really cool.
Trump has taken culture to a new low and he’s not done yet as maybe he will bar all works of art unless they portray hard work, fatherland and family. After all, he believes that the peak of sophistication is reflected in his garish self-portrait at Mar-a-Lago.
For the record, here are the Medal of Freedom winners under Trump:
Miriam Adelson, Republican political donor.
Orrin Hatch, retired Senator who led the efforts to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which has benefited nobody who earns less than $100,000.
Alan Page, football player.
Elvis Presley, Elvis the Pelvis.
Babe Ruth, the Bambino.
Antonin Scalia, late Supreme Court justice who anchored the conservative wing of the court.
Roger Staubach, football player.
Bob Cousy, basketball player.
Arthur Laffer, economist under President Reagan who championed the trickle down theory that trickled down pee pee on all but the wealthy.
Edwin Meese, attorney general under Reagan who resigned following the Wedtech scandal involving federal contracts.
Roger Penske, race car drive.
Mariano Rivera, baseball player.
Jerry West, basketball player.
Tiger Woods, golfer.
Dan Gable, wrestler.
Lou Holtz, football coach.
Jack Keane , retired general and security analyst for Fox News.
Rush Limbaugh.
Jim Ryun, track star.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, golfer, athlete.
Devin Nunes.
Jim Jordan.
Gary Player, golfer.
Annika Sörenstam, golfer.