Biden to give George Soros, Hillary Clinton the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Joe Biden will be awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to billionaire George Soros and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, plus 17 others, in a ceremony on Saturday.

The White House announced in a statement that the award is given to individuals who have made contributions to the values, security or prosperity of the U.S., according to Fox News.

The news about the Medal of Freedom recipients resulted in backlash on social media.

"A travesty that Biden is giving Soros the Medal of Freedom," Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on the social media platform, X.

"Biden is giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton and George Soros… seriously two of the worst people on earth," another user wrote.

Soros, the controversial Hungarian-born billionaire, supported Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections to the tune of $175 million, according to Federal Election Commission records. 

The New York Post reports that in 2024 he gave another $60 million to various left-wing causes and to House and Senate Democrats through his Democracy PAC. 

In addition, according to the outlet, Soros has moved "tens of billions of dollars of his personal net worth over to his Open Society Foundations, which funds a multitude of progressive projects around the world, has also heavily invested in races to install far-left district attorneys in major American cities." Among those DA's are Alvin Bragg and George Gascon. 

Soros, for whom critics of his are often labeled as antisemitic, has also donated tens of millions of dollars to some of the groups leading the pro-Hamas and anti-Israel protests on college campuses. 

Other individuals who will receive the award include actors Denzel Washington and Michael J. Fox, Bono, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, and former Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy.