A great example of the media bias and outright dishonesty today. Trump tried to make a point that it was a high honor for a civilian to get the Presidential Medal of Freedom and that it was "better" than the Congressional Medal of Honor in the sense that don't have to risk getting killed in war to receive it. The media twisted this somehow to claim he was disparaging soldiers. He did no such thing. He just pointed out that you didn't have to risk your life to get the Freedom Medal. Ironically, in so doing he was by implication actually complimenting the soldiers who had to perform an act of heroism to get the CMH.
"That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian, it’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It’s actually much better, because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor – that’s soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead,”