President Trump plans to award New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick the Freedom Medal this week to try to return to normalcy after the U.S. Capitol riots and calls for his second removal, according to a report released Sunday .
With just a few days to go in the oval office, Trump will make a last-minute presidential power bend by honoring the Super Bowl-winning brain and other longtime supporters with the highest civilian honor, according to Politico.com
Trump also plans to award the prize to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Monday, the same day Democrats are expected to file indictments against him.
On Tuesday, Trump will visit a section of the U.S. border wall in Alamo, Texas, less than a week after the deaths of five people during the right-wing siege at the U.S. Capitol.
And on Thursday he will present Belichick with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which historically honors people for “the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, culture, or other significant public or private efforts.”
The facts have been in the works for a long time, a Trump aide reported at the exit.
In 2016, Trump boasted that Belichick wrote him a letter congratulating him on “a tremendous campaign.”
A Patriots representative did not immediately respond to Politico’s request for comment.