{"id":2351,"date":"2025-08-15T18:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/tom-cruise-rejected-getting-a-kennedy-center-honor-from-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T18:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:49:06","slug":"tom-cruise-rejected-getting-a-kennedy-center-honor-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/tom-cruise-rejected-getting-a-kennedy-center-honor-from-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Rejected Getting a Kennedy Center Honor From Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGetting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/tom-cruise\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-cruise_1\" data-tag=\"tom-cruise\">Tom Cruise<\/a> on stage with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump_1\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is a real mission impossible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Hollywood action icon reportedly shot down an invitation from the president to be among the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/kennedy-center\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kennedy-center_1\" data-tag=\"kennedy-center\">Kennedy Center<\/a> honorees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/2025\/08\/13\/trump-kennedy-center-honorees\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">According to <em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, the <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> star declined the opportunity due to \u201cscheduling conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tInstead, Trump unveiled a list of 48th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/kennedy-center-honors\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kennedy-center-honors_1\" data-tag=\"kennedy-center-honors\">Kennedy Center Honors<\/a> recipients on Wednesday that included the glam metal band Kiss, Broadway star Michael Crawford, country music legend George Strait, singer Gloria Gaynor and, in the film actor category, Sylvester Stallone (who was also on Trump\u2019s list of \u201cspecial ambassadors\u201d to Hollywood \u2014 along with Mel Gibson and Jon Voight \u2014 that Trump announced at the start of his second term). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOn Wednesday, Trump also announced that he will personally host the ceremony. He noted he always wanted a Kennedy Center award but \u201cwas never able to get one \u2026 I said, \u2018The hell with it, I\u2019ll become chairman and I\u2019ll give myself an honor. Next year, we\u2019ll honor Trump, OK?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPreviously, Trump took over the center as chairman, and House Republicans are pushing to rename its opera house for first lady\u00a0Melania Trump. It remains unclear this measure will receive a full vote in Congress, or if it would pass, to become law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe hosting move follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/politics-news\/trump-la-olympics-task-force-2028-games-1236337070\/\">Trump announcing<\/a> that he was forming a special task force in charge of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, with himself appointed chairman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Kennedy Center Honors ceremony will take place on Dec. 7 and will air on CBS. The Kennedy Center, CBS and a representative for Cruise all declined to comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting Tom Cruise on stage with Donald Trump is a real mission impossible. The Hollywood action icon reportedly shot down an invitation from the president to be among the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees. According to The Washington Post, the Top Gun: Maverick star declined the opportunity due to \u201cscheduling conflicts.\u201d Instead, Trump unveiled a list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[538,1249,2575,1155,2574,2573,645],"class_list":{"0":"post-2351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fashion","8":"tag-center","9":"tag-cruise","10":"tag-honor","11":"tag-kennedy","12":"tag-rejected","13":"tag-tom","14":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}