This Saturday, January 4, the American President presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to around twenty personalities from political, sporting and cultural life. The “Medal of Freedom” is the highest distinction that a civilian can receive, and the choice of certain personalities this year is, without a doubt, a way for the outgoing president to send a message to his successor.
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With our correspondent in New York, Loubna Anaki
In total, 19 names appear in the list of personalities that Joe Biden chose to decorate with the “Medal of Freedom” (“Presidential Medal of Freedom” in French). A distinction which rewards “ exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States or world peace “.
Among the winners are celebrities like the Irish singer Bonothe Argentinian footballer Lionel Messithe American basketball player Magic Johnson and the American actor Denzel Washington. But Joe Biden also made clearly political choices.
The list includes, for example, George Soros94 years old, big donor to the Democratic Party and bête noire of a large number of Trumpists. It was his son Alexander who came to collect this medal from the hands of the American president. Hillary Clintonunsuccessful candidate for the 2016 presidential election against Donald Trump, was also decorated; the Republican president-elect has, on several occasions, suggested that he wants to send him to prison.
Joe Biden also presented, posthumously, a medal to Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy, brother of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and especially father of Robert Francis Kennedy Junior, the future anti-vaccine and conspiracy theorist Minister of Health of the next President Trump.
It’s hard not to see in these choices a message sent to Donald Trump, two weeks before his arrival at the White House. Especially since a little earlier in the week, Joe Biden also presented another distinction to the former Republican elected official Liz Cheney, also a pet peeve of Donald Trump.
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