Trump considered awarding self Medal of Honor amid Iran war chaos: insiders
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Photoshop him taking it from a dead soldier and giving it to himself
He was already given a purple heart from a veteran, twice. Once in 2016, and again in 2024 after the assassination attempt.
Never forget his borrowed Nobel peace prize!
At least his Fifa peace prize isn't borrowed!
No, that one was bought and paid for.
Was it? I think the prize was the payment.
Neither is his promotional McDonald's Hamburgler 'get out of rape free' card!
"Borrowed" implies he has any intention of giving it back.
Please don't give him ideas
Thanks Obama.
This is long past being a joke. Its really a nightmare, isn't it?
It was never not going to be. That supposed intelligent Americans would rather sit on the sidelines and allow it to happen - citing ‘moral grounds’ even - is appalling.
Republican voters could at any moment say "we won't vote Republican in the next election, unless Republican Congressmen impeach Donald Trump". And yet, they do not - rather the reverse, they would rebel if Republican Congressmen impeached Trump.
This is what 50% of America's active voters want. For them, Trump is still infinitely better than an Obama Presidency.
It's not even like Obama was good, either. We went from a bag of manure to wet shit crawling with maggots.
As an American, I can confirm this with a yes.
Send help.
This guy is such a fucking asshole.
Seriously, he has surpassed even Ronnie Raygun at this point as far as being the worst president, at least in recent times. I wasn't sure it was possible to surpass the shitstain that is Ronnie Raygun, who up until Pedonald, had objectively the most criminal administration in history.
The only thing more pathetic than him are the morons who got suckered into voting for him. I'm sure they are working on their rationalization for this now. They are like the fools who fall for romance scams and can't admit they were duped.
No it’s the inability to do anything about him. There’s no checks, no balance and people are just sitting back. It’s crazy.
This has gone past his voters. A good majority of the USA is complicit.
It's really wild when some polling seems to indicate they are not satisfied with him, and yet.... Poll or interviewer: would you vote for him again, tho?
The mark/idiot: "Yep"
They are so brainwashed that they simply cannot imagine voting for a Democrat, because that would make them gay or woke or whatever. The branding and the propaganda works on these people pretty much for life. This go-round they seem to think that voting was all about trans ("men in women's sports") or something.
It basically boils down to teams. Do you abandon your baseball team because they suck? Nope, you cling to them like grim death. Trump is an incompetent senile psycho? Sure, but he's "my team". You'd have to abandon your identity to switch teams.
When I talk to people I suspect are Trumpers (they never come right out to me) they go on about things like illegal immigrants. I just nod and think "How do they hurt you? You love having cheap labor working on your house. You'd never want one of the jobs they have." Things that really effect them, like the economy or the massive class divide, don't register with them.
The term for these people that I just love is "reactionary centrists". Some of them will even claim to be "independents", LOL, but the very minute you do even the bare minimum of asking a few questions, you usually find someone that has an entire array of Faux News style talking points just aching to come out...
It describes them perfectly and simultaneously lampoons the bullshit narrative of a "center" in this country that the Democrats have, of course, drifted too far away from, because as everyone just knows, the Democrats are soooo extremist. So yeah, PEDOnald might be a pedo and a rapist and total con artist and have no idea how to do anything and is only out to enrich himself as he destroys the country, but the Democrats have the TRANS AGENDA and are aching to have doctors take away your son's winky while he's off at school!
He will even top Buchanan. His legacy will read like a demon James Buchanan who lost his will to appease.
at least reagan was pretty peaceful, our relations with the USSR were the only good thing his administration did
oh please do it. chefs kiss. the only bright spot from this guy is the way his life is just facade. Not an inch of depth anywhere. no actual love at all. all hate smiles.
If he weren't in such a powerful position where his shallow childishness was harmless, it would be hilarious how sad this dude is. This medal doesn't matter, ultimately. But apparently the thought that he might get an undeserving Nobel prize was all that held him back from starting multiple wars. He needs a full time ass kisser that praises him when he's not a complete psychopath to reinforce that behavior.
Your comment just made me figure it out, we're so stupid it's our fault literally our fault. We know he's a moron we know he's a mobster we me know he's an asshole...
We think of the Nobel Peace prize as an award given for an accomplishment. The orange buffoon doesn't think in terms of accomplishment He thinks in terms of bribes the Nobel Peace prize was a bribe to keep him from starting wars.....
I hate this timeline so much
Keep in mind he's not just a moron, monster, asshole, he's also a clinical narcissist. He actually does think that he deserves both the Nobel Prize and the Medal of Honor, because he thinks he's literally better than everyone else. So if anyone deserves it, surely he also does too because he's better than the people who do deserve it.
He probably saw this pic and thought "Oh, I also want to copy that from him!".
PLEASE do this, make sure to have lots of fanfare and a parade!
Also, I recommend promoting yourself to "Super General" and be sure to wear a military uniform with a gigantic hat.
Admiral General Trump
Minimum of 8 stars
The generation that gave us participation trophies and then complains about our generation being given participation trophies.
This fucking timeline....
The masters of projection
Who downvoted this? I see you, you fucking shit ass boomer.
Is the Medal of Honor enough? Given Trump's qualities, doesn't he warrant some form of higher award that would place him somewhere above all the existing Medal of Honor awardees?
The Medal of Honor has non-gold components. He could make a new medal out of solid gold. And call it whatever he wanted. The Medal of Extraordinary Honor, say.
Mike Johnson recently said they were considering creating a new award that would properly honor him.
Attaboy!
EDIT: Apparently they already awarded it, and it's gold!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/26/trump-given-america-first-award-republican-party/89330333007/
Trump does seem like the suitable and fitting recipient of the first-ever America First award!
Holy shit, this is the stupidest timeline.
Incredible. Absolutely amazing how they can, straight-faced, declare a "golden era" after: War crimes, a botched random
warPutin-like military operation claiming countless innocent lives, insane energy prices, unemployment and poverty rapidly approaching Great Depression levels (did we break the record yet?), various high ranking officials getting canned for incompetence and corruption, not to mention massively growing protests in the streets after citizens are politically gunned down by armed goon-clowns.All because Great Leader refuses to confess to his heinous rapes of countless children likely including his own.
It really is just magical "emperor's new clothes" thinking. It's Kremlin or North Korea-esque dictatorial absurdity.
Oh yeah, this big stupid waste of precious metal and pompous ceremony is YET ANOTHER DISTRACTION FROM THOSE FILES THEY'RE ALL IN.
They're planning this "award" yearly?! LMAO. They're gonna give him one of these stupid things once a year and everybody's supposed to act like it's a surprise?!
Not the Onion
Golden Handcuffs, mayhap?
Ya know. There are better materials than gold. I think he should get a uranium or plutonium medal that he can wear right over his heart.
The YUGE Medal Of Bigliest Covfefe
The bigly-est!
He should make a new medal just for himself. "Most awesome guy! Super president!"
Trump saw this meme and thought it was real
Please do it.. just start giving yourself meals for random shit as fast as you can. Do it.
Typo works well
Lmaooooo.
I'm leaving it.
Fixed that. We all know McDonalds is his favorite meal.
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is fucking smarter than little don.
President Camacho; chose the smartest person in the world to replace him; thereby showing an empathy and level of intelligence sadly lacking in the real world.
What a ripe opportunity to bring this character back. I honestly don't know how it hasn't happened already.
A weekly web series, a podcast, something. We need Camacho now more than ever.
He should be president for real, it would be a massive improvement
Got my vote
At least you can talk sense to Camacho.
And he listens to smart people.
Who downvoted this? Donnie?!? You get the fuck out of here, you goddamn ghoul.
Next up, he wins the noble prize, the Betty Crocker bake off, and the world series.
Hmm Kim JU might step us a challenger!
What a tv show that would make.
He already seems to be imitating Kim in so many ways. Big difference is he has a powerful prosperous country to take down his path of narcissistic insanity.
Oh please let him do it. Let him build his tacky ballroom, let him put his signature on the money, let him smear his feces on the declaration of independence. Future generations of Americans need embarrassing reminders of what can happen to America, reminders they can't ignore, and at least these don't have a body count attached.
You think future Americans will be embarrassed by all this and not idolizing it. I like your optimism. I, too, hope Americans can smarten up one day.
If they're idolizing it then at least that's a good signal to the rest of the world to maintain American isolation.
That would be hilarious, he's insane enough to do it.
More hilarious to see how r/conservative defends and lauds it. The most amusing shit show on reddit by far.
Maybe he likes this view.
Those generals have to be covered with so many medals that they practically become armor, but the Boss is above that nonsense.
I looked it up.
https://worldhistoryedu.com/reasons-why-north-korean-generals-wear-so-many-medals/
So think of it kind of like, oh, hereditary titles in an aristocracy or something. It's a "I'm the grandson of person who was important some time back" sort of thing. The people with lots of medals belong to a family that has been in the "in" crowd for some time.
Systemic Nepo-Babies.
"My great grand-daddy killed fiddy men, and my daddy got boyscout merit badges for polishing the most Great Leader statues, and that's why I'm your discord admin" kinda energy going on here.
Thus shitting on every soldier who earned it before him. Way to go asshole... way to go.
Some of the first people to get it got it doing a massacre of Native Americans so this seems more like going back to basics with an Obama giving himself a medal meme included but with more pedo shitting himself vibes.
An intricate web of logic you've woven. Interdasting.
Wow. It's like the horribleness of the bad guy from roger rabbit mied with the craziness of Doc from back to the future. Only the crazy personality is dominant.
He's doing everything he can to stay in our minds, sapping our energy like some kind of a vampire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder#Signs_and_symptoms
Got it all but the charm.
He's obviously charming in the eyes of his disturbingly numerous supporters.
What a moron!! Give yourself some more medals extreme aged dementia pedo paw-paw
I honestly expected him to have invented some sort of "American Peace and Greatness Nobel"-Prize by now. And award it to himself.
may as well at this point, army will put up with it and donald is already king, time for random coronations like the olden days :/
He should give himself the same award Hitler did.
Or he could just call up people who have received it (or their heirs if deceased), and have one of them give him theirs, like he did with the Nobel Prize. Maybe even several of them, so he can brag that he was awarded more Medals of Honor than anyone in history.
Didn't he do it with a purple heart too?
I think so, back in his first term. As I recall, a veteran offered his and he took it and kept it.
The sad thing is that there are probably a number of them who would be willing (if not excited) to give it to him.
Its reserved for the military, isn't it? The president is a civilian.
Something something commander in chief blah blah nothing matters and what if it did. Trump.
"He was elected by the American people, therefore everything he does is fine."
-all his collaborators, almost literally.
And congress awards it, so he can't just make a tweet decree and give himself one.
Yes. The civilian "equivalent" is the medal of freedom. Although technically the president is the highest ranking as commander in chief during war.
He hasn't declared war tho, right?
Can we please get chomo Caligula to the gallows? Like now
This is what I will call him for now on
Nice
Lol I love this photo. Perfectly encapsulates what a vile little bitch this subhuman really is.
Has anyone considered covering him in gold leaf until he suffocates? Everyone wins in this scenario.
Where's Khal Drogo when you need him?
There’s only one way to find out.
They should let him do it, live on TV! Make it an official broadcast!
Yes
So we're gonna need to build a Truman show set, with actors (or fucking clones, I dunno) of people in his admin, to literally contain his madness.
Just... yep Donald, yep, you're still the President, and everyone loves you, mhm, yep.
This is certainly morally superior to the reverse, where he is just an insane madman, but... actually in charge of important things.
Damn, did you write that?
That's quite good as a poem, and you could probably build a kickass array of songs out of it as well.
I'm so disappointed it from THAT album.... maybe the music sucks because the focus is, misery the lyrics are trying to convey? My brain kinda focuses on the music vs the lyrics so the Final Cut is a very hard album to enjoy, but maybe there's more to it..
Oh I know.... I honestly find the half of the Wall that sounds similar to the Final Cut very unpleasant too, I much prefer Atom Heart Mother or Meddle, but I'm not hearing the lyrics, just the music.
Wish you were here and Animals are amazing too. DSOTM is just simply its own beast.
I still think it's possible that in 2016 the Republicans told him they were hiring him to play the President in a mockumentary.
Fuck this fucking fuckfaced fuck
What a fat fucking pig. I'm actually surprised he doesn't go around in a uniform.
I will lay you odds that he cosplays that in private.
He’s losing it. I can’t wait to see the treasure trove from 8 years of unbridled insanity that will spill open once’s he’s gone and everyone can tell the truth again.
Yes, the meritorious medal for bravery in the deferment line, the Purple Fart, isn't enough for Generalissimo Trumpo - the new El Presidente of what was formerly known as Venezuela but is now the State of Trumpo (Spanish for "Trump").
His should have four 'F' clusters. For his deferments due to his daddy's money.
It would be the State of Pedo (Which actually is Spanish for 'trump')
Either that's just a coincidence or we're living in a simulation.
Will he start wearing a bunch of fancy uniforms, like Idi Amin?
The only medal the Orange Turd deserves is the "Hero of the Russian Federation."
What a looser. Lmao!
who could possibly be awarded the medal of honor during a time when the US is terrorizing the world?
who could possibly accept it if they were given it?
oh, he's considering giving it to himself. that makes more sense
Whenever I see shit like this from him, I keep seeing that painting of Napoleon crowning himself emperor…
This is a useless advertisement of mentally ill persons' delusions. Whoever that person is, that advertisement is still useless - - both for us and everyone else.
"Here you go, we made it out of pipe cleaners and modeling clay."
Shit motherfucker.
I'm reminded of the meme where this guy thinks he's number one -- biting the medal, kissing the presenter, shit like that -- when he's actually the last down off the podium.
Not that it's in doubt, but this just proves he's fooking loops.
At the end, he'll simultaneously award himself the Medal of Honor, and also give himself a Pardon.
Why the Sexiest Man Alive Medal as well? 77 million would drop on their knees to "praise" him.
Congressional Medal of Honour Winner Donald J Trump for services rendered awarded by a greatful country and a cowardly congress. Sure go ahead put your name forward despoil everything that was held sacred.
Quick get hime the FIFA medal of Honor.
What an absolute fucking loser.
How about "Trump considered awarding himself Federal Prisoner of Dishonor amid creating Iran war chaos: insiders," as I think that sounds better?
That has to come from Congress
No. The only part Congress might play is waiving the time limits.
https://www.cmohs.org/news-events/blog/how-is-the-medal-of-honor-awarded/
Look I am not saying this isnt true, however I half remember a story from either the end of his first term or shortly after where some aide came out saying they would compete to see who could get the most insane story printed. This 100% feels like that with the medal of honor part. I could also be misremembering or made the story up in my head to same my own sanity. So, maybe I am wrong.
The yelling and other parts probably true though.
Given what he has done, this isn't even remotely "crazy".
So you're suggesting this is something he wouldn’t do?
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-purple-heart-226565