This Saturday, January 4, the American President presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to around twenty personalities from political, sporting and cultural life. The “Medal of Freedom” is the highest distinction that a civilian can receive, and the choice of certain personalities this year is, without a doubt, a way for the outgoing president to send a message to his successor.
With our correspondent in New York, Loubna Anaki
In total, 19 names appear in the list of personalities that Joe Biden chose to decorate with the “Medal of Freedom” (“Presidential Medal of Freedom” in French). A distinction which rewards “ exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States or world peace ».
Among the winners are celebrities like the Irish singer Bonothe Argentinian footballer Lionel Messithe American basketball player Magic Johnson and the American actor Denzel Washington. But Joe Biden also made clearly political choices.
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