Donald Trump announced the recipients of the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors: an annual awards ceremony that recognizes individuals in the performing arts for their achievements in music, film, theatre and other art forms. With a few months to go until the ceremony takes place at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center Opera House, the president announced the honorees for the event, including “I Will Survive” hitmaker Gloria Gaynor and Rocky star Sylvester Stallone .

On August 12, Trump called the ceremony a “very exciting project,” referring to the recent overhaul of the Kennedy Center Board and to the upcoming awards ceremony.

“We’re going to do something that will go rapidly, relatively inexpensively, and we’ll make it better than it ever was,” Trump noted, adding that he was “deligh

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