Getting Tom Cruise to accept a 2025 Kennedy Center Honor is proving to be mission impossible. The Top Gun actor was offered the 2025 prestigious award but declined, according to multiple Kennedy ...

Numerous Snopes readers also searched our website and asked us if it was true that Cruise declined to be honored at the Kennedy Center by Trump. Anonymous Kennedy Center employees were the main ...

In August 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the annual Kennedy Center Honors, an award given to those who have made significant contributions to arts and culture. The announcement of the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. If Cruise had accepted, this would have followed in a long line of ...

On Wednesday, Aug. 13, Donald Trump announced the Class of 2025 for the Kennedy Center Honors with KISS, Michael Crawford, George Strait, Sylvester Stallone, and Gloria Gaynor. Still, there was one ...

President Trump had tapped Tom Cruise as a recipient at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, but was rejected by the Oscar-nominated actor, according to a new report. The “Mission: Impossible” star told ...

President Donald Trump has selected several famous stars to receive recognition at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, but Top Gun: Maverick star Tom Cruise won’t be one of them despite receiving an ...

According to The Washington Post, the Oscar-nominated actor had been tapped as a recipient at this year’s ceremony but told Trump that “scheduling conflicts” made his chances of attending the event an ...