Dolly Parton Says That She Twice Turned Down Medal Of Freedom From Donald Trump

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Country music legend Dolly Parton said in a new interview that former President Donald Trump’s administration tried to give her the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, twice but she had to turn them down.

“I couldn’t accept it because my husband was ill,” Parton, 75, told NBC’s Today of Trump’s first offer, “and then they asked me again about it and I wouldn’t travel because of the Covid.”

In April last year, Parton donated $1m to help research and development of the Moderna vaccine against Covid-19.

Then, she told the BBC: “I’m sure many, many millions of dollars from many people went into that but I felt so proud to

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