{"id":193425,"date":"2025-09-02T06:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193425\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T06:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:25:19","slug":"trump-to-award-former-nyc-mayor-rudy-giuliani-presidential-medal-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193425\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to award former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani Presidential Medal of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is awarding former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Trump posted to Truth Social, calling Giuliani the &#8220;greatest Mayor in the history of New York City, and an equally great American Patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani was the mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001 and was widely known for his leadership after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement comes just two days after <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/rudy-giuliani-recovering-injuries-after-new-hampshire-car-crash-domestic-violence-andrew-giuliani#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/rudy-giuliani-recovering-injuries-after-new-hampshire-car-crash-domestic-violence-andrew-giuliani#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giuliani was involved in a traffic accident in New Hampshire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giuliani was in the passenger seat of a rented Ford Bronco driven by his spokesperson, Ted Goodman, when their vehicle was struck from behind by a Honda HR-V late Saturday evening, New Hampshire State Police said in a statement. The Honda was driven by a 19-year-old woman.<\/p>\n<p>The crash caused both vehicles to hit the highway median, according to troopers who witnessed the scene, and left both vehicles \u201cheavily damaged.&#8221; Goodman and the 19-year-old driver suffered \u201cnon-life-threatening injuries\u201d and both were taken to hospitals to treat injuries, the agency added.<\/p>\n<p>After the accident, Giuliani was taken to a trauma center nearby and was treated for injuries including a \u201cfractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg,\u201d according to Ragusa.<\/p>\n<p>Ragusa reassured people about Giuliani\u2019s condition, saying, \u201cHe\u2019ll be released in a few days and he\u2019s doing great. Conscious, alert, strong. He\u2019ll be back to business as usual this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> The National News Desk&#8217;s Mina Allen contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is awarding former New York City Mayor Rudy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,106636,13117,107948,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,107950,79466,107949,277,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-193425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-giuliani","10":"tag-injuries","11":"tag-medal-of-freedom","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-patriot","19":"tag-september-11","20":"tag-traffic-accident","21":"tag-trump","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115133279437417238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}