Trump Gushes Over ‘True Legend’ Sylvester Stallone for 5 Minutes While Announcing Kennedy Center Honorees

Tom Durante Aug 13th, 2025, 1:27 pm

Rocky hasn’t been celebrated like this since he knocked out Ivan Drago.

President Donald Trump spent five whole minutes raving over Sylvester Stallone as he announced the action star was among this year’s Kennedy Center honorees on Wednesday.

“Next, we look forward to honoring three-time Oscar nominee, Golden Globe award winner and action movie icon and a friend of mine. Very unique man. He’s somebody that doesn’t do these things,” began Trump. “I said I wonder if he will accept? Because some people don’t really want to be honored. They don’t care. But he was very honored to be honored, I will tell you. He’s a very special guy. A real tale

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