Trump Roasted For Saying Medal Of Honor Recipients Inferior to GOP Mega-Donor: ‘The Disrespect Is Legit Dumbfounding’

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Former President Donald Trump stirred controversy on Thursday during a speech to Jewish supporters about combatting rising antisemitism in the U.S. He was joined by Miriam Adelson , the GOP mega-donor and the wealthiest person in Israel.

During his speech, Trump recalled giving Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian,” Trump said adding:

It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor. But civilian version.

It’s actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, that’s soldiers, they’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead.

She gets it, and she’s [laughs] a healthy, beautiful woman.

Trump later said the medal he gave Adelson for being one of his biggest campaign donors in 2016 was “rated equal” to the Medal of Honor, which is the highest military award for valor in the U.S. and reserved for those soldiers “who distinguish themselves through conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.”

Trump’s odd remark echoed comments his former Chief of Staff John Kelly said Trump made to him at a military cemetery while president, saying that soldiers who died in combat are “losers” and “suckers.” Trump received a swift backlash online to his comments Thursday from across the political spectrum.

Below are some of those responses:

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