President Donald Trump announced this year’s recipient for the Kennedy Center honor on Wednesday, after overtaking the board of Washington, DC, at the beginning of his second term.
The actor Sylvester Stallone, Broadway star Michael Crawford and the musical artists Gloria Gaynor, George Strait and Kiss are feted in a ceremony in December that Trump said he would do.
The winners of the stage and screen enjoyed all important and award -winning careers, although Trump is personally known in some cases. Trump said that he was “98 percent” involved in the selection; This year ago, a non -partisan advisory committee selected recipients in the past.
Trump was in a joking atmosphere for a large part of his free-l trading in the announcement of Washington, who interfered with a political praise for the Republican Senators John Thun and Lindsey Graham and the self-prize for the legislation and achievements of his government. It was a contrast to his representation of the city as “adopted by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals” and “drug-out maniacs and homeless people” who led to one controversial military federal intervention in the capital.
Trump a no-show in the first term
President Dwight Eisenhower initiated the process of establishing the center in the late 1950s, and in 1964 President Lyndon Johnson and the Congress found that it would be named after the recently murdered President John F. Kennedy.
Since the late 1970s, the main theater has been organizing an event in December for a wide range of actors who contributed over 250 to American culture at that time.
Trump visited none of these ceremonies during his first term.
In the first weeks of his second presidency, Trump fired the Center board of trustees and appointed himself the new chairman. Although it is not unusual for a president of naming friends and allies on the Kennedy board, Trump essentially issued with an earlier party composition by board members In a movement that was mirrored With more important agencies and commissions.
The overhaul caused a counter -reaction among many artists, with some appearances in the various event locations of the Kennedy Center canceled or resigned from his advisory bodies.
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There were concerns that Trump would politicize his signature event or would not recognize the process for the selection of recipients. During his first term, he was accused of having loosened it Presidential medal of freedom of ceremoniesWith a sporting learning merchant friends and acquaintances of Trump-freely overrepresented.
The center generally ignored the political affiliation of its award winners. Prominent liberals such as Barbra Streisand and Warren Beatty were honored during the government of Republican George W. Bush, and a leading conservative Charlton Heston was celebrated during the administration of the Democrat Bill Clinton.
Trump said on Wednesday without providing evidence that the center was in the “decline” and complained about “awakened programming”.
US President Donald Trump was responsible for the Kennedy Center in Washington and was responsible to get rid of “Woke” interferations and big names such as Hamilton, Issa Rae and Louise Penny to deny the events in protest.
phantom Actor under honor
Trump praised the English actor Crawford during a visit to the Kennedy Center in March and complained about the closure of the Phantom of the operaThe Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical, the Crawford, now 83, has contributed to becoming famous.
The phantom Premiere on London stages and celebrated his Broadway debut in 1988. The show, which received seven Tony Awards and seven drama Desk Awards, had a record run on Broadway, which was finally closed after almost 14,000 performances in 2023.
“Even” Phantom of the Opera “closes in the biden -era!” Trump posted on social media at the time.
The Tenor Crawford won the Tony Award for the best actor in a leading role in the musical for The phantom. Previously, he had some recognition on stage and on the screen, with credits that included a film adaptation by The Stephen Sondheim Musical from 1967 A funny thing happened on the way to the forum.
Trump is known as a music theater enthusiast and was one of the investors in his professional life early in a Broadway comedy from 1970, which was closed after almost 100 performances. He saw phantom At least once when Melania Trump was released on Facebook in 2012, an enthusiastic review of the show, which said the couple took part with the then president of Georgia.
Everything I please from you And and the title track of the musical was played at Trump Campaign Rallyes.
Gaynors legendary disco hymn I will Survive Was also played at Trump Rallyes. The song brought Gaynor a Grammy for the best disco recording and 40 years later she won another Grammy in 2019 for her gospel album. Transcript.
Gaynors Disco -Hits also contained cover of soul classics such as I can never say goodbye And Get it, I’ll be there.
Gaynor, 81, also performed on stage in the music theater and was the Subject of a 2024 -documentary film Spread her career and comeback as a gospel artist.
KISS announced an end in 2023, 50 years after the foundation in New York City. The band fought a few years before the 1975s Lively!Your fourth album breakthrough. Your commercial success was solidified the following year with the top 10 power ballads -single -Single Beth.
The band had already acquired legions of fans who were known as Kiss Army for bombastic stage shows, including explosives, fire breathing and blood. The group is also considered a trail blazer in the band and tours.
The original members of the band – Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss – were included in the Rock’n’Roll -Hall of Fame in 2014, whereby anger against the machine guitarist welcomed them as “one of the best known and bad bands of all time”.
Simmons in 2008 was one of the participants of the Trump spoiled Celebrity apprentice Reality competition.
Stallone, who praised Trump, honored
The star of the blockbuster film franchise Rocky And RamboIt is known that the 79-year-old Stallone is friends with the president and that Trump compares with George Washington with George Washington shortly after Trump’s election victory in November.
“We are in the presence of a really mythical character”, ” Stallone allegedly said about Trump.
Stallone was appointed “special ambassador” in Hollywood together with the other actors Mel Gibson and Jon Voight at the beginning of this year.
Stallone was a fighting actor when he was partially inspired by the Gesandman boxer Chuck Wepner, who challenged Muhammad Ali, wrote the script for the script for Rocky.
Trump offered a revisionist history of the film on Wednesday, which won the best picture at the Academy Awards in 1977. In fact, stalle and others who are familiar with production have said over the years that he had opposed the efforts to take on larger established actors the role of what the producers of the film originally wanted.
Strait, 73, published his 31st studio album last year and the first in five years. Cowboys and dreamers. His recording started in 1981 and within a few years he had achieved a dozen country hits in No. 1. Until 1998 he was already the leading candidate in the history of the Country Music Awards and then after he was appointed artist of the first decade of the 2000s by the Academy of Country Music.
The singer of land strikes like All of my exs live in TexasPresent Check yes or no And Amarillo in the morning was included in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
Strait still plays selected data, although he announced a resignation of widespread tour over a decade ago, with the Cowboy Rides Tour touring one of the 2014 most lucrative.
