{"id":210903,"date":"2025-09-08T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210903\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T19:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:24:19","slug":"trump-attacks-tom-hanks-after-west-point-cancels-event-honoring-actor-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210903\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump attacks Tom Hanks after West Point cancels event honoring actor | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a> launched a vitriolic attack against Tom Hanks<\/a> for supposedly being \u201cdestructive\u201d and \u201cwoke\u201d after one of America\u2019s most beloved actors was snubbed without much explanation by West Point last week.<\/p>\n

On his social media site<\/a> on Monday, the US president applauded the alumni association of the US Military Academy (or West Point) for abruptly calling off a ceremony<\/a> honoring Hanks, twice an Academy award winner who has played numerous military characters and also has a long history of advocating for veterans.<\/p>\n

Trump wrote: \u201cOur great West Point (getting greater all the time!) has smartly cancelled the Award Ceremony for actor Tom Hanks<\/a>. Important move! We don\u2019t need destructive, WOKE recipients getting our cherished American Awards!!! Hopefully the Academy Awards, and other Fake Award Shows, will review their Standards and Practices in the name of Fairness and Justice. Watch their DEAD RATINGS SURGE!\u201d<\/p>\n

Hanks had been scheduled to receive the 2025 Sylvanus Thayer Award later this month for his \u201cservice and accomplishments in the national interest\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a message to faculty<\/a>, retired Col Mark Bieger declared the cancellation would allow the institution to \u201ccontinue its focus on its core mission of preparing cadets to lead, fight and win as officers in the world\u2019s most lethal force, the United States Army\u201d, without elaborating how the two are connected.<\/p>\n

Hanks has previously endorsed Democratic candidates including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

He has been deeply involved in veterans\u2019 causes. He was the national spokesperson for the World War II Memorial in Washington DC. He also supported Bob Dole\u2019s fundraising campaign for the Dwight D Eisenhower Memorial, according to the alumni association\u2019s own original statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He has already been inducted<\/a> as an honorary member into the US Army\u2019s Ranger Hall of Fame. In 2016, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n

Among his military portrayals are Capt John Miller in Saving Private Ryan, the Vietnam war soldier Forrest Gump (for which he won the Oscar for best actor), and Cmdr Ernie Krause in Greyhound, for which he also wrote the screenplay. He also portrayed the title role in 2013\u2019s Captain Phillips and appeared in the cold war film Bridge of Spies.<\/p>\n

His work has made him one of the US\u2019s most decorated actors, with seven Emmy awards to go alongside the five Academy award nominations for best actor, which he won twice in a row.<\/p>\n

Trump, who has dabbled in acting including a cameo in Home Alone 2, has regularly complained about never winning an Emmy<\/a> for his reality television show The Apprentice, lamenting that he \u201cshould have gotten it\u201d, that he \u201cgot screwed out of an Emmy\u201d and that \u201cthe Emmys are all politics\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump launched a vitriolic attack against Tom Hanks for supposedly being \u201cdestructive\u201d and \u201cwoke\u201d after one of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-210903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115170317476808836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}