The Washington Post<\/a> reported in August, citing several anonymous Kennedy Center employees.<\/p>\nThe president ultimately named Stallone, KISS, Michael Crawford, George Strait, and Gloria Gaynor as his 2025 Kennedy Center honorees.<\/p>\n
Stallone, 79, outed himself as a hardcore Trump backer last year, when he delivered a fawning introduction for Trump at a gala after the election, going as far as naming Trump \u201cthe second George Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in the presence of a really mythical character,\u201d Stallone said, adding that he was in \u201cawe\u201d of Trump.<\/p>\n
Trump has appointed Stallone, as well as fellow MAGA movie stars Jon Voight, 86, and Mel Gibson, 69, as his \u201cspecial ambassadors\u201d to Hollywood. The three elderly actors have all been spotted palling around with Trump over the years at functions held at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s comments on Thursday about Cruise and the pilots\u2019 handsomeness are nearly identical to what he said in a rambling speech earlier this month, sans a dig at Cruise\u2019s height. <\/p>\n
Trump told the crowd at McDonald\u2019s Impact Summit that he found the pilots \u201call handsome\u201d like Cruise, but with one exception.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey looked like Tom Cruise. They really do,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be a wise guy and say \u2018But taller.\u2019 I\u2019m not gonna say that. No.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump accidentally embarrassed MAGA actor Sylvester Stallone while riffing about \u201cthe last of our movie stars.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":409941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,77,171,125348,63564,68987,11683,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-409940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-donald-j-trump","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jon-voight","12":"tag-mel-gibson","13":"tag-sylvester-stallone","14":"tag-tom-cruise","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115625672784799067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409940","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=409940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Sylvester Stallone, 79, outed himself as a hardcore Trump backer last year, when he named Donald Trump \u201cthe second George Washington.\u201d Joe Raedle\/Getty Images <\/p>\n![\"MEXICO](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WIYNNFC6TNE3JOD3M7XFPOVJLM.jpg\")
Tom Cruise reportedly declined a Kennedy Center award from the president. Manuel Velasquez\/Getty Images <\/p>\n