{"id":70020,"date":"2025-08-14T21:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70020\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:47:05","slug":"tom-cruise-reportedly-too-busy-to-receive-kennedy-center-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70020\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise reportedly too busy to receive Kennedy Center Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Cruise has never had any issues jumping out of planes<\/a> or riding motorcycles off cliffs<\/a>, but boring old \u201cscheduling conflicts\u201d are apparently something even he can\u2019t conquer. According to The Washington Post<\/a>, Cruise was offered one of the Kennedy Center Honors that Donald Trump announced yesterday<\/a>, but declined due to said scheduling conflicts. Former and current Kennedy Center employees speaking to the outlet did not disclose any specifics on those scheduling conflicts or any other reasons why Cruise might have declined. Considering the man could likely skydive in<\/a> for the ceremony and be back wherever he needed to be for dessert, however, they must be pretty binding.<\/p>\n

There is, of course, the matter of the ceremony\u2019s host\u2014self-appointed Kennedy Center chairman<\/a> Donald Trump. Cruise has remained largely tight-lipped on the country\u2019s current political hellscape. He even dodged a question about his favorite topic\u2014movies\u2014at a Mission: Impossible\u2014The Final Reckoning press conference earlier this year, per Variety<\/a>. When a reporter asked the actor to comment on Trump\u2019s proposed movie tariffs<\/a>, Cruise responded by saying that\u00a0 \u201cwe\u2019d rather answer questions about the movie.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The final honoree list, all of whom apparently had some free time on their calendar, includes Kiss, Michael Crawford, George Strait, Sylvester Stallone, and Gloria Gaynor. It does not include Trump himself, although the president did say, \u201cNext year we\u2019ll honor Trump, okay?\u201d after whining about how he\u2019d never gotten the offer before. He presumably does have this type of power, as he said he was \u201cabout 98% involved\u201d in the selection of this year\u2019s honorees.<\/p>\n

The president also made a big show of saying how much he really didn\u2019t want to host the Honors before announcing that he was taking one for the team and doing it anyway at his unveiling of the honoree class yesterday. Not everyone was so unenthusiastic about his role as emcee, however. In a guest monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a>, comedian Nicole Byer said she was actually glad Trump was hosting the ceremony. \u201cLet him host the Emmys, the Grammys, a podcast with Theo Von. He could be the host out of Applebee\u2019s!\u201d she elaborated. \u201cAnything that distracts him from running this country into the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

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