President Donald Trump on Thursday took time before awarding the country’s highest military honor to three service members to offer gratuitous commentary on the stock market and about his own Secretary of Defense, while complaining that he hadn’t found a reason to award himself the decoration.
The president was just seconds into his remarks at the East Room ceremony when he postponed what he called the “very important business” at hand to say that American stock markets “just hit a new all-time high” and claim that Americans’ 401(k) retirement accounts had done the same.
