Trump Presents Kennedy Center Honors Medals to Stallone, Strait, KISS, Gaynor and Crawford at the White House
President Donald Trump on December 6 presented the medals of the 48th Kennedy Center Honors to the five 2025 honorees in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, hailing the class as "perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class" ever assembled. The honorees are actor Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, the rock band KISS, and actor-singer Michael Crawford.
Trump personally placed the new medal around each honoree's neck. The medal, designed, created and donated by jeweler Tiffany & Co., is a gold disc etched on one side with the image of the Kennedy Center and rainbow colors, with the honoree's name and the date of the ceremony on the reverse. The Kennedy Center's official 2025 class lists the members of KISS as Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss and Ace Frehley.
When Trump personally announced the class at the Kennedy Center in August, he said he was "about 98% involved" in choosing it. He has since become chairman of the center's board of trustees, and this is the first class chosen under his leadership. Also on December 6, the honorees received their medallions during a special tribute ceremony held at the State Department.
The Kennedy Center Honors, founded in 1978, recognize lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts. The tribute gala is scheduled for December 7 at the Kennedy Center Opera House, with Trump hosting, a first for a U.S. president, and the taped program is set to air on December 23 on CBS and stream on Paramount+.
Related: 48th Kennedy Center Honors Announced: George Strait, Stallone and KISS Among Five Honorees
Source: The Kennedy Center
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