{"id":305348,"date":"2025-12-08T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305348\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:52:08","slug":"watch-trump-takes-central-role-in-kennedy-center-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305348\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Trump takes central role in Kennedy Center Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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":305349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-305348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}