Overview
- This year’s honorees are George Strait, Michael Crawford, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor and KISS, with Ace Frehley honored posthumously and his daughter accepting his medal.
- Trump awarded custom Tiffany & Co. medallions on blue ribbons during a televised Oval Office ceremony on December 6.
- The broadcast is scheduled for December 23 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+, and Trump predicted record ratings.
- While previewing his role, Trump slammed Jimmy Kimmel as “horrible,” though Kimmel has never hosted the Kennedy Center Honors.
- Since January, Trump has remade the Kennedy Center by replacing leadership, becoming board chair, securing more than $250 million for renovations and asserting he was “98%” involved in selections, rejecting some as too “woke.”