In a ceremony yesterday at the White House, Gary Player and Annika Sorenstam accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Trump in a private, secret ceremony.
How this is even possible given the events of the previous day is almost impossible to understand.
Maybe you could say that both of the recipients are foreign-born (Sorenstam is a naturalized American citizen) so the assault of the United States Capitol, fomented by the very president they would be seeing, doesn’t register the way it otherwise might.
Maybe they could say, like Justin Rose said when he went to Saudi Arabia in the wake of the state-sponsored murder of Jamal Khashoggi, “I’m not a politician.”
We don’t know yet why they went to the White House.
But whatever excuse they come up with won’t be good enough. These two people have blackened their reputation and their legacy in my eyes forever.
What they did was inexcusable. Period.
Couldn’t agree with you more
they are both such likeable people so it seemed incredibly odd and sad