Trump drops ‘threesome’ quip about giving himself and sons Medals of Honor
Trump: I see my two beautiful sons sitting there. I think I'm going to give one medal of honor to myself, one to them, and we'll have a threesome. pic.twitter.com/547JdLCIwL
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MEDORA, NORTH DAKOTA: Donald Trump once again went on a wild rant about honouring himself with the Medal of Honour, but this time wrapped it around a risque "threesome" joke involving his grown sons.
The 80-year-old President was speaking at the dedication ceremony for the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library on Wednesday, July 01, when he left supporters with mouths agape as he delivered an eyebrow-raising remark while joking about also wanting to be part of a father-son duo that has won the Medal of Honor.
Trump wants to give himself and his two sons the Medal of Honor
Roughly an hour into his remarks, the President waxed poetic about the former President Roosevelt and his son, General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who were one of two father-son pairs given the Medal of Honor.
“Except for Arthur and Douglas MacArthur ... they're the only father and son pair to receive our nation's highest military award for courage above and beyond the call of duty,” he started.
He then veered off the conversation to himself and his sons, saying, "As I see my two beautiful sons sitting there, I think, 'I'm going to give one to myself and one to them'. We'll have a threesome. I'll pick out one of the two.”
The remark drew audible gasps from the crowd, prompting Trump to backtrack and quickly suggest that he would give the high honor to just one of his two sons, neither of whom, like him, has served in the military.
“Ok, I'll pick out one of the two. I'll give them the Congressional Medal of Honor for something for their genius at hunting. I'll get one for taking on Russia, Russia, Russia, or something, and we'll have a third pair now,” he said before adding that he was “only kidding.”
Trump reveals why he didn’t give himself Roosevelt’s medal
Trump struck the same note again later that day when he presented Roosevelt’s medal, which had been in the White House collection, to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum at a ribbon-cutting to officially open the facility.
“You know, I want to give one to myself, but they tell me, and I'm allowed to,” he said.
Trump joked that he shelved the idea after his two eldest sons said they couldn't think of anything he had done to earn the Medal of Honor, awarded for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty."
He later seized the opportunity to suggest that Roosevelt would not have approved of previous Democratic presidents, including his predecessor, Joe Biden.
Roosevelt, he said, “transformed his country by the reach of his vision into one of the greatest places, one of the greatest empires, one of the most incredible countries, ready to take its rightful place as the strongest and most respected nation anywhere in the world.”
“They didn't have people that didn't, couldn't, they had no idea where they were. They didn't have people who couldn't walk up the steps, see those steps. They didn't have people who had no idea where the hell they were.”
“They didn't have people who said, "Let's have open borders, so millions and millions of people can pour into our country from prisons all over the world. They didn't have those people. They had strong, smart people like Teddy Roosevelt,” he continued.
