Rush Limbaugh receives the nation’s highest civilian honor. (The White House)

It’s tough to keep up with the outrages in the Trump era. There seems to be at least two per day. Less than a week ago, President Donald Trump honored Rush Limbaugh, a notorious racist, homophobe, sexist, whore monger and propagandist, with the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. But a week later that outrage has already been eclipsed by something even worse — the president subverting the justice system.

As someone who works in the media, I’ve been following Limbaugh for the last three decades. By creating a home for angry, white men, who were mad that the world was changing and they now had to compete for work with minorities and women, Limbaugh became a media titan and multi-millionaire. He also has a foul track-record of insulting anyone who wasn’t a white male.

Here are a few of his offensive comments over the years.

Limbaugh once said that NFL games looked like the Bloods and the Crips.

He told a black caller to “take the bone out of his nose.”

He referred to former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as looking “like the shoeshine boy.”

He also called Sandra Fluke, a law school student who was advocating for birth control to be covered by health insurance, a slut who wanted to be paid to have sex. (Limbaugh didn’t know that some women take birth control to regulate their periods, not every time they have sex.)

Referred to former first lady Michelle Obama as “moochelle.”

Limbaugh thrived on AM radio, the only environment where these kinds of comments are rewarded. If he had worked in regular Corporate America, he would have been fired within a week. However, Limbaugh’s open racism eventually worked against him, he was regularly subject to ad boycotts. Eventually, advertisers decided to avoid the talk radio format altogether because it was too much of a hot potato.

Limbaugh claimed to be an advocate of conservative values but is on his fourth marriage and was busted with Viagra coming back from an all-male trip to noted child sex hotspot the Dominican Republic. And while Limbaugh made jokes about gays, he happily welcomed Elton John and his partner to his wedding and was friends with a drag queen.

Limbaugh is also highly inaccurate. Like FOX News, who followed his success, he’s a great misinformer. Regular listeners to Limbaugh’s show probably ended up knowing less about the issues than when they started listening. But when journalists pointed out his inaccuracies, Limbaugh claimed he was just “an entertainer.” According to a recent analysis of Limbaugh’s radio show by PolitiFact, only 4 percent of his comments were rated “mostly true.”

Additionally, he is also a raving hypocrite. Limbaugh claimed to be an advocate of conservative values but is on his fourth marriage and was busted with Viagra coming back from an all-male trip to noted child sex hotspot the Dominican Republic. And while Limbaugh made jokes about gays, he happily welcomed Elton John and his partner to his wedding and was friends with a drag queen.

He also advocated for harsh sentences for drug users and later turned out to be addicted to oxycontin. He falsely accused President Barack Obama of having terrible grades at Harvard. However, Limbaugh only lasted a year in college. Like Trump and FOX News creator Roger Ailes, Limbaugh is a BS artist. He never believed in the crap he was selling. He’s just a shock jock, who says crazy stuff to drive up his ratings and ad dollars.

Ultimately, Limbaugh wants his followers to do as he says, not as he does, and also keep voting against their interests. And his propaganda has worked. Many Limbaugh fans are blue-collar, union people, even though he rails against organized labor. (I used to work with a government employee who was a Limbaugh fan. She didn’t seem to realize he loathes government workers.) Their lives have not gotten better during the four decades he’s been on the air. Limbaugh supports policies that make their lives worse.

Ultimately, Limbaugh’s Medal of Freedom award is just the latest in a long line of incidents where Trump has debased the government and the nation. It started when he first got elected when he installed his family in the White House, even though they had trouble passing background checks. First lady Melania Trump, the first nude model/softcore porn actress to hold that position, also showed her high regard for the office by hawking her merchandise on the White House web page. Trump also continues to enrich himself by pocketing tax-payer money every time he visits one of his golf courses. The current total for these visits is about $120 million. This kind of nonsense has been going on for three years!

Raul A. Reyes, an immigration attorney and contributor to USA Today, also says the Medal of Freedom has been tarnished. In an editorial in The Hill, he called Limbaugh’s award demeaning.

“Limbaugh does not deserve the nation’s highest civilian honor. His career reflects the worst brand of destructive partisanship. Limbaugh receiving the Medal of Freedom contaminates the honor for all past and future recipients,” said Reyes.

Ultimately, honoring Limbaugh is a sick joke. Many of Trump’s decisions are not done for the betterment of the country, but to “own the libs,” a phrase that means infuriating the people on the left. Driving half of the country mad is no way to run a country, the president should be above that and have more important things to do.

However, less than a week after accepting the Medal of Freedom, Limbaugh was back to his old ways, lobbing homophobic comments at Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.

“They’re saying, ‘OK, how’s this going to look?’” said Limbaugh on his show. “Thirty-seven-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on stage, next to Mr. Man, Donald Trump.’”

(Trump got five deferments to avoid going to Vietnam, while Buttigieg served in Afghanistan.)

So now, Rush Limbaugh, the racist, homophobe and sexist, has a Medal of Freedom, alongside noted historical figures such as humanitarian Mother Theresa and civil rights activist Rosa Parks.

Great.