It wasn't just Antonin Scalia's conservative jurisprudence that impressed President Donald Trump.
At a Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House on Friday, the commander in chief lauded the Supreme Court justice — and his wife, Maureen, who accepted the medal posthumously for her husband — for their proficiency in procreating.
Trump, in his introduction of Maureen Scalia, pointed out that the couple had nine children together.
Trump on Scalia's nine children: 'I always knew I liked him'
Nov. 16, 201801:51"You were very busy," Trump said. "Wow. Wow."
"I always knew I liked him," he added, to laughter from those in attendance at the ceremony.
The Medal of Freedom is the highest national honor a president can bestow on a civilian.
Antonin Scalia, who had been the bench's longtime ideological conservative, died in February 2016 at the age of 79.
