Trump draws fire for remarks about Medal of Honor recipients

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : And we just had always a great relationship, known her for a long time," Trump said.
59% : Trump draws fire for remarks about Medal of Honor recipients KELSEY WALSH, LALEE IBSSA and SOO RIN KIM August 16, 2024 at 8:17 PM Former president Donald Trump sparked criticism when he said the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, is "much better" than the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor, because soldiers are in "bad shape" or dead when they receive it - comments Trump's campaign suggested were misinterpreted.
59% : " Trump then recalled the moment Miriam Adelson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
52% : During an event at his Bedminster, New Jersey, estate Thursday night, which was about antisemitism, Trump called attention to a major donor, Miriam Adelson - the widow of his friend and business mogul Sheldon Adelson - upon whom he bestowed the Medal of Freedom in 2018.
47% : Trump draws fire for remarks about Medal of Honor recipients originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
45% : "You have to be smart," Trump said, before discussing his list of accomplishments such as the Abraham Accords and withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.
43% : "I like people who weren't captured," Trump said in 2015.
35% : During the Bedminster event, Trump highlighted the importance of the Jewish vote, while also making false claims about various Democrats, including Harris.
26% : Trump has vehemently denied the reported remarks, which President Biden repeated on the campaign trail before he dropped out of the race.
25% : Trump then repeated a dual loyalty trope - that itself has been criticized as antisemitic - that American Jews owe a dual loyalty to Israel or having two separate interests that conflict, telling the audience, "Jewish people have to not vote by habit.
25% : " Trump continued to make similar comments, suggesting that Jewish people need to "stop" voting for Democrats.
21% : Trump says he's 'entitled' to make personal attacks on Harris, citing lack of respect Trump, who holds himself up as a champion of the military and regularly discusses his record of rebuilding the military while in office, has drawn fire for swipes at servicemembers.
21% : We must reject it in our schools, reject it in our foreign policy, reject it in our immigration system and reject it at the ballot box," Trump told the crowd.
18% : More recently, Trump came under scrutiny when The Atlantic reported in 2020 that he had called those who died in war "suckers" and "losers."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.