Korn frontman Jonathan Davis was recently mentioned twice by U.S. president Barack Obama during Army veteran Florent Groberg‘s Medal Of Honor ceremony. The speech saw Obama joke that he was not the lead singer of Korn, as Davis was present during Groberg‘s initial recovery on an apparent USO tour. Davis has since told Rollingstone.com that he was shocked by the mention, saying of how he found out:
“I was asleep and then around six or seven in the morning, my phone starts going off. I look over and someone had just texted me ‘The president just said your name during this Medal of Honor ceremony.’ I’m just like ‘whatever’ and went back to sleep, but [my phone] kept going.”
“I couldn’t believe it. It’s really cool. The President of the United States gave me props for being there for a Medal of Honor recipient. Groberg went through hell.”
Respectfully Davis doesn’t intend to use the mention as a soapbox for his own views on Obama (he previously called him an ‘illuminati puppet.’) Instead, Davis insists that this is Groberg‘s moment:
“We all have our views on the president, I’m not going to take [this moment] and make it about that. This is about Captain Groberg.”
