Yahoo News: Donald Trump said Bill Belichick 'chickened out' in rejecting Freedom medal and they later made up at a golf course
Charles Robinson · NFL columnist
A forthcoming book chronicling a turbulent 18-month snapshot of American politics will claim some new details surrounding one of the higher-profile rejections that former President Donald Trump experienced during his time in office: the refusal of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick.
In the book "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future," New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns share an April 2021 interview with the former president at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump spoke about the wavering political support he experienced following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol. Within it, Trump spoke about Belichick’s refusal to accept the Medal of Freedom in the wake of the insurrection, making the Patriots coach one of only four individuals to decline one of the highest civilian service honors in the United States. The book is slated for a May 3 release.