Actor Sylvester Stallone, glam rockers Kiss, nation music star George Strait, disco diva Gloria Gaynor, and actor-comedian-singer Michael Crawford had been named to this yr’s listing of Kennedy Heart Honorees, as introduced by President Donald Trump on Wednesday, August 13. Trump will even host the forty eighth annual Honors.
“I’ve agreed to host. Do you consider what I’ve to do?” stated Trump.
The announcement of the honorees was teased on X (previously Twitter) in a put up that learn: “Coming quickly… A rustic music icon, an Englishman, a New York Metropolis Rock band, a dance Queen and a multi-billion greenback Actor stroll into the Kennedy Heart Opera Home…”
👀Coming Quickly👀
A rustic music icon, an Englishman, a New York Metropolis Rock band, a dance Queen and a multi-billion greenback Actor stroll into the Kennedy Heart Opera Home…. pic.twitter.com/hX48btQPx5
— The Kennedy Heart (@kencen) August 12, 2025
“The forty eighth Kennedy Heart Honorees are excellent folks, an impressive group — unimaginable,” said Trump of the honorees. “We will’t wait to have fun the Kennedy Heart Honors.”
The announcement of the annual gala and its honorees got here after the controversial resolution by the POTUS to take away all Democratic members from the bipartisan Kennedy Heart board simply 4 weeks into his second inauguration. He then turned the primary president to be elected chairman of the Kennedy Heart.
In a press release to reporters on February 10 after the shake-up, Trump famous, “I’m going to be chairman of it. We’re going to be sure that it’s good and that it’s not going to be woke. There’s no extra woke on this nation. This woke has brought about us a fortune and brought about us our repute. However the repute is coming again very, very quickly.”
Trump didn’t attend the Honors performances throughout his first time period in workplace.
“This can be a very thrilling mission,” Trump stated on the press convention on Wednesday. “We’re going to do one thing that may go quickly, comparatively inexpensively, and we’ll make it higher than it ever was.”
The Kennedy Heart Honors will happen in December and might be produced by and televised on CBS, although the airdate is just not but confirmed.
Lately, tensions between CBS and the present administration have drawn consideration because the community introduced final month that The Late Present will finish in Could 2026 for monetary causes, following Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump over a 2024 60 Minutes interview with then–Vice President Kamala Harris. Whereas the community stated the choice was unrelated, some have speculated the transfer was linked to Trump, particularly as Paramount was finalizing its Skydance merger and host Stephen Colbert remained a frequent critic of the president.
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