President Trump awards medal of freedom to 3 golfers’ day after Capitol riot

Just one day after his supporters rioted in the US Capitol, President Donald Trump went back to business. And by business we mean golf.

POTUS awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to three professional golfers on Thursday – retired stars Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player, as well as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who died in 1956.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the country’s highest civil honor … which the White House describes as an award to those “who have made particularly deserving contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace or to cultural or other important public or private efforts. “

Player and Sorenstam would have received the award as early as March … but the event was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ceremony is normally open to the press … but not this time.

Of course, that probably has to do with the events that took place in DC on Wednesday … with hundreds of Trump supporters invading the Capitol building.

If you question the decision to continue with the event – as the country is still dealing with the consequences of the incident on Wednesday – you are not alone.

Player’s son, Marc, expressed his concern about his father accepting the award, and tweeted: “I wish my father would reject this ‘award’ at this moment simply and politely.”

“Show deafness. In denial. Wrong !!”