WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is honoring actors Robert DeNiro, Cicely Tyson, Tom Hanks and Robert Redford with the nation’s highest civilian honor.
They are among 21 people Obama plans to recognize with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on Tuesday.
Honorees from the sports world include basketball players Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan, along with veteran sports broadcaster Vin Scully.
Entertainers include Ellen DeGeneres, Diana Ross and Bruce Springsteen.
Other honorees are philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates, polymath physicist Richard Garwin, architect Frank Gehry, designer Maya Lin, “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels, attorney Newt Minow, mathematician and computer scientist Margaret H. Hamilton, and Eduardo Padrón, president of Miami Dade College in Florida.
Posthumous honors will go to Native American advocate Elouise Cobell and Rear Adm. Grace Hopper.
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It’ll be interesting to see how many people refuse these awards next year; how many will refuse to perform at the White House; how many people with actual talent will snub his odiousness, Herr Coir Coif.
I look forward to when the Orange Shitgibbon and his minions finally tire of Ted “Pantload” Nougat (with special guest Mike Hucksterbee). It’s the best they’ll get (hopefully) and the most they deserve.
I’d love to see trump’s White House be the kiss of death for anyone that performs there.