President Donald Trump made history on December 7-8, 2025, as the first sitting president to host the Kennedy Center Honors, celebrating artists like Sylvester Stallone and Gloria Gaynor.Trump, embracing showmanship, humorously suggested renaming the venue "The Trump Kennedy Center" and awarded Tiffany & Co. medals to the honorees.He declared it "perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class of Kennedy Center Honorees ever assembled," noting the persistence of artists like Stallone who "keep moving forward."