It is good that the president honored seriously wounded Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall for his courageous reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Only it was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who did the honoring, not President Biden.

It is too bad. Biden could have done himself some good.

Hall, 41, is the courageous Fox reporter who returned to Ukraine last week after recovering from wounds that nearly took his life upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine 20 months ago.

Hall was seriously injured when his vehicle came under a Russian missile attack in an abandoned village outside of Kyiv.

Hall’s Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and local Fox assistant Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, 24, were killed along with two Ukrainian soldiers.

Hall, stranded by the side of the road after he escaped from his burning vehicle, was rescued by Ukrainian soldiers who came across him after the attack.

After 30 surgeries Hall survived but lost his right leg below the knee, his left foot, the use of his left hand and the sight in his left eye.

But the amazing British-born journalist refused to be broken.

Upon his return to Kyiv last weekend, Hall said, “One of the things that surprised me most is that I was a little bit intimidated when I was heading that way.

“But I actually got off that train in Kyiv and I felt far more strong than I had before because I think it reminded me that you can go through absolutely anything, you can be pushed down and bad things can happen, but together—and we can remember this on Thanksgiving—together, you can pick yourself up, you can do anything you want again.

“There should be no limits to what you can do.”

Shortly after making those remarks -which sounded more presidential than anything Joe Biden can put together– Hall met with Zelenskyy who awarded him the country’s Order of Merit.

Which was fine. If anyone deserved official recognition it was Hall. His fearlessness and devotion to covering the invasion is commendable.

And honoring Hall for it was something that Joe Biden should have done.

While it is true that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin played key roles in getting Hall safely out of the country and getting him the medical attention he badly needed, Biden had little, if anything, to say about Hall’s experience. Nor did he invite him to the White House after Hall recovered from his injuries.

Perhaps Biden’s lack of interest stems from the contempt he holds for Fox News for its conservative bent. He won’t even appear on Fox, even though Fox is the leading cable television news network in the country.

Biden, who is confused about a lot of things, probably confuses Fox’s news operation with its conservative panel programs and right-wing commentators who constantly criticize him. So, he takes it out on Fox reporters.

How else does one account for Biden openly calling Fox’s respected and balanced White House Correspondent Peter Doocy “a stupid son of a bitch” after Doocy asked him a question about inflation?

It may come as news to Biden, but Fox News has some of the best and most objective young reporters around, reporters who do not have an agenda but report what they cover honestly.

They include Hall, 41, White House Correspondent Doocy, 36, National Correspondent Bill Melugin, 32, whose immigration coverage at the southern border has been comprehensive, fearless and fair, Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst, 30, in Israel and others.

I say that because having been a newspaperman longer than any of them have been alive and have seen a lot of reporters come and go.

Fox News is lucky to have this group along with Bret Baier who’s nightly 6 p.m. Special Report is the most comprehensive, balanced and objective news program on television, cable or otherwise.

It has been hard times for the public since the media went woke and wrecked its credibility after progressives took control of the television networks, the national newspapers, and the Associated Press. Truth became the first casualty.

It is why the New York Times and the Washington Post can award themselves Pulitzer Prizes for phony Trump/Russian collusion stories they knew were not true.

Next time they should give a Pulitzer to Ben Hall.  But maybe he won’t want it.

Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.

Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall returned to the place that nearly killed him to interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)