{"id":181403,"date":"2025-12-08T17:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181403\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:23:06","slug":"president-trump-hosts-the-kennedy-center-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181403\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump hosts the Kennedy Center Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">President Trump took a central role in the annual Kennedy Center Honors on 7 December, moving away from tradition by taking on the hosting duties for the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The awards, which went to stars including Sylvester Stallone and Gloria Gaynor, were handed out by the president in a ceremony the day before in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Previous hosts of the awards show have included Walter Cronkite, Steven Colbert and Caroline Kennedy &#8211; John F Kennedy&#8217;s daughter &#8211; but Trump is the first president to host.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Earlier this year, Trump ousted the Kennedy Center&#8217;s leadership and replaced much of the board of trustees with Republican supporters. President Trump was then elected chair of the institution which he said he would rename &#8216;the Trump-Kennedy Center&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump took a central role in the annual Kennedy Center Honors on 7 December, moving away from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-181403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}