President Trump on Sunday hosted the Kennedy Center Honors after presenting the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees with their medals during a ceremony in the Oval Office on Saturday, hailing the slate of artists as "legendary in so many ways."

"Billions and billions of people have watched them over the years," Mr. Trump, the first president to command the stage instead of sitting in an Opera House box, said to open the show.

This year's recipients were actor Sylvester Stallone , singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait , the rock band Kiss and actor-singer Michael Crawford.

Mr. Trump said they were "among the greatest artists and actors, performers, musicians, singers, songwriters ever to walk the face of the Earth."

On Saturday, he called the honorees, whom he was deeply in

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