Overview

• At a Washington, D.C., press conference, Trump announced the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors lineup and said he would host this year’s ceremony
• He described himself as the institution’s new chairman and said he agreed to host only after board member Susie Wiles asked him
• Trump recounted that he initially refused—“I’m president of the United States. I won’t do it.”—before telling Wiles, “OK, Susie, I’ll do it”
• On NBC’s Late Night, Seth Meyers labeled Trump’s recollection “definitely a fake conversation” and jokingly awarded him “Best Original Screenplay”
• Meyers linked the episode to Trump’s history of self-congratulatory displays—fake Time covers and a Michigan “Man of the Year” claim—and joked about a self-bestowed “EGOT Award For Most Everything”