Donald Trump presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the family of Welles Crowther on Tuesday, standing on the Ellipse beside a 21-foot steel beam pulled from the South Tower, with Welles’s mother, Alison, and his sister Paige accepting on his behalf.
Then the president measured the dead man against himself. “The man in the red bandana has become more famous than me,” he told the crowd. “I don’t like it. Very unhappy. But he’s become much more famous than me.”
He is right about the fame. Welles Crowther is beloved because he gave his life for strangers, and in the faith I was raised in, a man who does that is called a saint…