President Donald Trump presented the nation’s highest civilian honor to Dan Gable, a renowned wrestler and coach from Iowa who won a gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Gable was a champion wrestler at Iowa State University, compiling a 117-1 record and winning two NCAA titles. At the maskless and crowded Oval Office ceremony on Monday, Trump jokingly challenged the Olympic gold medalist to a match, asking, “Think I could take you?” “Now I’m larger than you a little bit.
You think I could take you in wrestling? Would I have a big advantage?” Trump asked. “You’d have no chance,” the 72-year-old responded. The president went on to praise Gable’s record at Iowa State before falsely claiming he won two elections. “Well in politics,