Nation celebrity and San Antonio native George Strait was among the many honorees who acquired Presidential Medal from President Donald Trump on Sunday.
Different recipients current on the ceremony included rock band KISS, actor Sylvester Stallone, singer Gloria Gaynor and actor-singer Michael Crawford, who originated the Phantom of the Opera position on Broadway in 1986.
“It is a group of icons whose work and accomplishments have impressed, uplifted and unified hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of People,” Trump stated. “That is maybe essentially the most completed and famend class of Kennedy Middle Honorees ever assembled.”
Songs by each Gaynor and Strait performed within the Rose Backyard exterior the Oval Workplace as press filed in, in line with media studies. The ceremony was held on the White Home fairly than the Kennedy Middle, marking a presidential first, the Related Press studies.
Largely ignoring the Kennedy Middle throughout his first time period in workplace, Trump’s second time period has proven a marked shift the place he’s undertaken a hands-on effort to eradicate what he views as “woke” programming on the heart. This has included ousting board members and changing them with MAGA loyalists, whether or not they have expertise with the humanities or not.
In flip, the brand new board members appointed him chairman.
In the course of the presser about his revamped model of the premier Kennedy Middle honors, Trump said that he was 98% concerned within the course of of choosing this yr’s honorees, the Related Press studies.
The Kennedy Middle Honors program and its sequence of tribute speeches and performances for every recipient is ready to filmed on the Kennedy Middle be broadcast Dec. 23 at 7 p.m. CT on CBS tv stations and Paramount+. Trump will host the night.
Strait was the primary to obtain his medal, taking his hat off for the glory, although Trump stated, “If you wish to go away it on, you’ll be able to. I feel we are able to get it via,” in line with the Related Press.
The medal itself can be a brand new design, created and donated by Tiffany and Co., that includes a gold disc etched on one facet with the Kennedy Middle and rainbow colours. The reverse facet options the honoree’s identify and the date.
“These are among the many best artists, actors and performers of their era. The best that we’ve seen,” Trump stated, in line with the AP. “We will hardly think about the nation music phenomena with out its king of nation, or American disco with out its first woman, or Broadway with out its phantom — and that was a phantom, let me let you know — or rock and roll with out its hottest band on the planet, and that’s what they’re, or Hollywood with out one among its best visionaries.”
“Every of you has made an indelible mark on American life and collectively you could have outlined complete genres and set new requirements for the performing arts,” Trump added.
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