So Rush Limbaugh gets a Presidential Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest civilian award. And it comes from Donald Trump, making this the least meaningful and most shameful presentation yet.

This is — or has been — a truly significant honor. The recipients are people of accomplishment. A very, very short list includes Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, John Glenn, Gen. Omar Bradley, Stephen Hawking, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosalynn Carter…. and dozens more, all meritorious and deserving and decent people, at the least.

Rush Limbaugh has demeaned women of all races, smeared Asian people, praised white supremacists, excused the seriousness of rape, and announced that “If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it’s Caucasians.”

Rush Limbaugh is a morally crippled blowhard whose fealty to the cheapest and most offensive thoughts and language ranks him as the very least deserving of a presidential medal. The fact that the award came from the mentally and morally corrupt Donald Trump only confirms the shabbiness of the entire arrangement.

We may now expect one of the next Trump recipients to be Rudy Giuliani. Or perhaps William Barr. After all, sycophants love sycophants.