Tiger deserves it, so don’t detract from his career achievements by overlaying with something else POTUS’ genuine desire to reward an American legend.
If anything, I see Tiger’s fall from grace and recent recovery through commitment and never-say-die grit as a metaphor for our nation. We lost it. We were in the shit. But we’re digging ourselves out and we’re going to win and win big in the years ahead.
I can’t believe POTUS isn’t also thinking that Tiger’s path is a symbol of the nation’s experience.
Of course, it’s the right thing to do for a true sporting hero. And POTUS is more sensitive than most to multiple layers of significance. It would, however, be unworthy to suggest that recognition of Tiger is a positioning device to fuck big ears and big mike, much though they deserve it.