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underpants

(195,107 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:01 AM Aug 2025

Kennedy Center Honors 2025

George Strait ✅
KISS
Gloria Gaynor
Michael Crawford
aaaand
Sylvester Stallone.

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Eliot Rosewater

(34,282 posts)
2. No such thing as Kennedy center honors anymore
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:05 AM
Aug 2025

Sure feel bad for the brilliant geniuses who actually were inducted in the past and actually deserved it.

But like the FBI and the department of Justice and Health and Human Services and every other single government entity, it’s gone.

11 Bravo

(24,282 posts)
4. Ted Nugent, Dean Cain, and that dipshit who played Chachi are all crushed by their exclusion.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:07 AM
Aug 2025

Paladin

(32,327 posts)
5. And this year's M.C.???
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:08 AM
Aug 2025

Why, Donald Trump, of course. He claims he's accepting the position "begrudgingly" (as if trump knows the meaning of that 4-syllable word).

trump, wiping his ass with the once-prestigious Kennedy Center. One of many indicators that we now reside in a hell on earth...

Paladin

(32,327 posts)
10. "...I'll give myself an honor. Next year we'll honor trump, OK?"
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:28 AM
Aug 2025

Actual quote from trump at the "Kennedy" Center honors announcements, today.

underpants

(195,107 posts)
12. X link below in giving himself an honor. I can't find the whole bit about his CofC asking him to host the event.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:35 AM
Aug 2025

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hatrack

(64,307 posts)
7. It would have been Kid Rock, but he's got a date with 3 cases of Natty Light that evening . . . .
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:13 AM
Aug 2025

hlthe2b

(112,937 posts)
9. Well, I like Gloria Gaynor and I suppose she is the "token" female, POC. She is religious so I suppose the
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:17 AM
Aug 2025

"Xian RW" may have supported the choice, but I guess they did not dig deep enough to know she was a Obama supporter.

"I (too) will survive..." (I hope).

underpants

(195,107 posts)
15. The music wasn't clearly Gene's third priority
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:48 AM
Aug 2025

He licensed out KISS for coffins 10-15 years I think.

I’m pretty sure my brother and I saw them leaving a Holiday Inn in Hampton without their makeup. My brother and I saw 4 guys - 3 with guitars heading to a car. KISS was playing at the Coliseum that night.

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