Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has died at age 70, according to his wife.
Limbaugh passed away at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, his wife, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, said on his radio show on Feb. 17, hours after his death.
“This day has been one of the most difficult days in recent memory, for me, because I’ve known this moment was coming,” Limbaugh said on the air at the time.
“I can’t help but feel that I’m letting everybody down with this. But the upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.”
It prompted then-President Donald Trump in February 2020 to present Limbaugh with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his State of the Union Address in front of the joint session of Congress.
“He is the greatest fighter and winner that you will ever meet,” Trump said at the time, adding that the medal recognized all that Limbaugh had done for America.
In December 2020, Limbaugh told listeners that he considered himself “extremely fortunate and lucky” to still be alive, considering the grim diagnosis.
“I wasn’t expected to make it to October, and then to November, and then to December,” he said. “And yet, here I am and today. Got some problems, but I’m feeling pretty good today. ... God knows how important this program is for me today. ”
Limbaugh was born in 1951 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He had a long career in media. After leaving college in 1971, he hosted his own radio show for many years.
Limbaugh was a stalwart Trump supporter who often praised the Republican businessman and president. He was also a critic of former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden.
Condolences poured in on Feb. 17 when news of his death emerged.
