Trump gave Kennedy Centre Honours to Sylvester Stallone, the members of Kiss and Gloria Gaynor - as well as a huge figure in musical theatre who was a household name in the UK in the 1970s

Donald Trump gave a medal to a British sitcom icon and huge figure in musical theatre at a deeply weird Oval Office ceremony tonight.

In the early months of his second Presidency, Trump set his sights on a takeover of the Kennedy Centre, one of America's foremost organisations for the performing arts. He ousted the board, rewrote the programme to be less "woke" and took control of the annual Kennedy Centre Honours.

The Honours are usually an A-list affair - and previous honourees have included Aretha Franklin, Paul McCartney, Jack Nicholson, Robert Ne Dior, Clint Eastwood, Barbara Streisand, Bob Dyl

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