Can you believe that Dolly Parton doesn’t have the Presidential Medal of Freedom? She doesn’t, and Barack Obama regrets not giving it to her.
While he made the mistake, Donald Trump didn’t. In fact, he offered it to her not once but twice. “I couldn’t accept it because my husband was ill and then they asked me again about it and I wouldn’t travel because of the COVID,” Parton told Today’s Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush.
Would she accept one from President Joe Biden? Miss Dolly says, “Now I feel like if I take it, I’ll be doing politics, so I’m not sure.” Not only that, “But I don’t work for those awards,” she continued. “It’d be nice but I’m not sure that I even deserve it. But it’s a nice compliment for people to think that I might deserve it.”
Just like we don’t deserve pets because of their pure love and kindness, we don’t deserve Dolly Parton. She has done so much good in the World that we don’t even know about, and yet she still feels like she doesn’t America’s highest honor. Gd broke the mold when he made her, which is a shame because we need more people like her.
