If you share this elsewhere, be sure to have done your research and be prepared for what people might come back at you with:

1. The picture shows a small sampling of recipients.

As reported here by the New York Times a week and a half before the 1986 ceremony, “Eighty Americans from 42 ethnic groups were named yesterday as recipients of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.”

2. What the Ellis Island Honors society actually is.

According to its website, the Ellis Island Honors Society “honors the importance of immigration to America’s prosperity and celebrates the contributions immigrants and their progeny have made to our nation” (www.eihonors.org/). 1986 was the inaugural year for the Ellis Island Medals of Honor, which are “presented annually to those who have shown an outstanding commitment to serving our nation either professionally, culturally or civically, among other criteria.”

3. What DJT received the award for.

Otto Coca, communications director for the Ellis Island Honors Society, told Reuters via email that the society’s current administration “maintains that Donald Trump’s Ellis Island Medal of Honor was exclusively presented in acknowledgement of his German heritage and his contributions to the City of New York as a developer, business leader and job creator.”