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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and HILLEL ITALIE

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sylvester Stallone , Kiss and Gloria Gaynor are among the luminaries being celebrated Sunday at the annual Kennedy Center Honors, with Donald Trump hosting the show, the first time a president will command the stage instead of sitting in an Opera House box.

Since returning to office in January, Trump has made the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts , which is named after a Democratic predecessor, a touchstone in a broader attack against what he has lambasted as “woke” anti-American culture.

Asked when he arrived for the ceremony how he had found time to prepare, Trump said he “didn’t really prepare very much.”

“I have a good memory, so I can remember things, whic

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