Rush Limbaugh, the influential right-wing media king who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family said.
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Limbaugh's wife, Kathryn, made the announcement on his radio show. "Losing a loved one is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one is larger than life," she said. "Rush will forever be the greatest of all time."
The radio icon was diagnosed with lung cancer in January 2020 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-President Trump at the State of the Union address days later.
"His fight was very, very courageous, he was very, very sick," Trump told Fox News shortly after Limbaugh's death was announced. "In theory, he could have been gone four months ago, really. He was fighting until the very end, he was a fighter."
