Trump Is Now Demanding Yet Another Medal He Didn’t Earn

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Brendan Smialowki/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump moaned that he cannot be given the Congressional Medal of Honor immediately after the nation’s highest military award was handed to an actual war hero. The president, who never served in the military and avoided the Vietnam War draft due to a disputed bone spur diagnosis , made the remark Tuesday during his State of the Union address as the Medal of Honor was awarded to retired Navy Capt. E. Royce Williams. The 100-year-old Korean War veteran received the honor after shooting down four Soviet jets during a 35-minute dogfight in 1952. Williams’ heroics remained classified for decades, and his F9F-5 Panther was riddled with 263 bullet holes during the encounter. Read more at The Daily Beast.