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I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom,” Trump said on Thursday evening. “That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian. It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor,” Trump added, referring to the highest military honor given for valor in combat.

But civilian version, it’s actually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead,” Trump continued. “She gets it, and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she got it for — and that’s through committees and everything else.

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    3 months ago

    What a bunch of weird shit to say about veterans. He’s like some weird cross between Dr. Evil, Jack Handy, and the Team America version of Matt Damon.

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      It’s also super weird to fixate on the physical attractiveness of people who receive such awards

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      3 months ago

      “I wish a robot would get elected President. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.”

      -Jack Handey

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      3 months ago

      He thinks soldiers are stupid because he can’t conceptualize anything other than his wholly self serving lizard brain