New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu on Sunday rebuked former President 's recent "asinine comments" about the Presidential Medal of Freedom being "better" than the Medal of Honor. At a campaign event in New Jersey on Thursday, Trump, the GOP's presidential nominee, said the Presidential Medal of Freedom is a "better" award than the Department of Defense's (DOD) Medal of Honor, which is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American armed forces who have distinguished themselves "through conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty." The Presidential Medal of Freedom, meanwhile, is awarded to civilians "who have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
" "It's the equivalent of the congressional Medal of Honor," the former president said about the Presidential Medal of Freedom. "But the civilian version, it's actually much better because everyone that gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers. They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they're dead.
" Adding: "[Adelson] gets it, and she's a healthy, beautiful woman, and they're rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom." Trump was referring to Miriam Adelson, a donor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from him in 2018 f.