“The thing I really want is I want for myself a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I’ve studied it and I will give it to myself. I have no problem, but I’m not allowed to. Can you believe it? The one thing I’m not allowed to do,” Trump said to laughter from the audience, which included 15 of the 65 living recipients of the honor. “I would give myself, so it would make it instead of 15, we’d have 16.”
Trump: We're privileged to have with us 15 of the 16 living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. I want for myself a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I've studied it and I will give it to myself, I have no problem, but I'm not allowed to. Can you believe it? The one… pic.twitter.com/oVG3FcJLPP
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 10, 2026But the president has never seen a trophy or award that he didn’t want, regardless of whether or not he deserved it. At a 2016 rally in Virginia, he accepted a (possibly fake) Purple Heart, given to soldiers wounded in combat, from a veteran. “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart,” he said while showing off the medal to the crowd. “This was much easier.”
In his first term as president, Trump referred to U.S. soldiers who died in World War I as “suckers” and “losers,” and wanted soldiers who had lost limbs in their service hidden from public view during a proposed military parade. His recent treatment of soldiers serving in his war with Iran, with long deployments, supply disruptions, and other poor conditions only add to the evidence that he doesn’t really care about military service members, and wants their honors without any effort or sacrifice.
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