The White House said the Medal of Freedom recipients have made “exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.”
I could not give less of a fuck about that award or who does or doesn't deserve it, but that's some pretty damn funny trolling on the Biden administration's part.
Better than what he was doing with the pardons anyway.
Trolling would pretty well have to be giving it to undeserving people just to piss someone off. I would get a laugh out of all the uproar it'll cause in the red hat circles though if I ever frequented their spaces. Clinton & Soros particularly.
Yeah, Clinton and Soros are the obvious trolls, but it goes deeper. He also awarded posthumous medals to Robert F. Kennedy (father of you-know-who) and George Romney (father of that other guy). Kind of a subtle reminder to those two that they didn't get their political influence o their own merits.
Heck, even Bill Nye (the Science Guy) is getting one. Another's the reminder that we can't just ignore Science when it is inconvenient.
But still, nothing can top when Trump gave the medal to Rush Limbaugh a few years ago. That is when the award jumped the shark. It's rather meaningless after that.
If you stay out of the conservative echo chamber, you might not be aware that Hillary Clinton and George Soros are cartoonishly evil wizards who simultaneously control everything and are violently inept. Imagine Rita Skeeter and Vigo the Carpathian getting awards, and that's sort of what this looks like to MAGA-addled brains.
Now, if Biden would do something good for the US like passing an executive order protecting us from the worst of Trump and Project 2025. Won’t happen, but would be nice.