It’s common knowledge that Donald Trump enjoys receiving awards, but according to a new Wall Street Journal report he actually floated the idea of awarding himself the Congressional Medal of Honor — a medal typically given by the president that is the “highest award for military valor in action.”
Jimmy Kimmel was both shocked and not shocked at all.
“Can you imagine if Trump gave himself the— of course you can imagine it, yes,” Kimmel says in the clip above. “He accepted the Nobel Prize as a gift. But what if he does, what if he puts that medal around his own neck? Would that be enough for these zombies who still worship him to wake up? Just fundamentally, can a person give himself an award?”
Kimmel goes on to explain Trump’s apparent reasoning.
“According to those who were there, Trump believes he deserves the Medal of Honor because his plane flew into Iraq on an unlit runway during a first term trip to visit troops. Well if that’s all it takes, anyone who ever flew into Newark deserves the Medal of Honor.”
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