FILE - Simone Biles, of the United States, poses wearing her bronze medal from balance beam competition during artistic gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. President Joe Biden will present the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people, at the White House next week. The medal of freedom is considered the nation’s highest civilian honor.
The late John McCain, the Arizona Republican with whom Biden served in the U.S. Senate, will also be recognized. Rapinoe is an Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women’s World Cup soccer champion captains the OL Reign in the National Women’s Soccer League. She is a prominent advocate for gender pay equality, racial justice and LGBTQI+ rights who has appeared at Biden’s White House.
The honorees who’ll receive medals from Biden “have overcome significant obstacles to achieve impressive accomplishments in the arts and sciences, dedicated their lives to advocating for the most vulnerable among us, and acted with bravery to drive change in their communities, and across the world, while blazing trails for generations to come,” the White House said.
Gabrielle Giffords. A former U.S. House member from Arizona, the Democrat founded Giffords, an organization dedicated to ending gun violence. She was shot in the head in January 2011 during a constituent event in Tucson and was gravely wounded. Diane Nash. A founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Nash organized some of the most important 20th century civil rights campaigns and worked with King.
Political theater. Nothing more.
Who cares!
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Congratulations...
All the vitriol in the other comments aside, the MoF really has become a political trinket and sadly even a joke the last several years. We had TFG awarding it to long-dead sports figures and entertainers along with his cronies, and Biden is not doing much differently.
Omg! These medal of hatred winners pack up grips go to Russia take blacktifa protest grinders lockup mush brain hates real America worst President ever worst group of people to give the award to
These replies are an excellent example of being hateful because you’ve been told to by the Right Wing propaganda machine. Un-American and downright ugly. Stop letting fascists tell you what’s patriotic.
Should give it to the police officers of Uvalde. They did excellent, at saving their own children.
Megan Rapinoe has fought so hard for equal pay for women. Glad she's being recognized. Now ladies go find yourselves a Megan Rapinoe & close the door completely on guys. You can buy a d*ck at the store.
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Laughable
Rapinoe hates America. This is just a joke
So the woman that refused to stand for the national anthem is getting a medal of freedom? I guess that makes sense for the Biden administration.
When give prestigious awards to undeserving candidates, you diminish the award to the point that it means nothing to receive it. Just like the Nobel Peace Prize given to Oboama, now all subsequent awards mean shit. Another example is Pulitzer prizes.
Even the medal of freedom has become a political tool to highlight the causes that the administration wants to promote.
Everyone gets a trophy! Liberals ruin everything!
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