Donald Trump will award Presidential Medals of Freedom to three professional golfers in a scheduled White House ceremony Thursday afternoon, the Golf Channel reports.
One day after a coup attempt at the Capitol by a Trump-supporting mob, Annika Sorenstam, Gary Player and the late Babe Didrikson Zaharias will be awarded the Medal by Trump.
Trump has awarded 23 Medals of Freedom during his term. Fourteen have gone to athletes or coaches, including four golfers. One went to a dead Supreme Court judge, one to the wife of a political donor, one to a disgraced economist, one to an Army general, one to Elvis, one to a radio propagandist. three to politicians. He has awarded none to people in the sciences, the fine arts, public service or academia. Trump is expected to award another Medal of Freedom to coatless Republican Congressman Jim Jordan next week, despite persistent allegations that Jordan ignored sexual abuse as a wrestling coach.