President Donald Trump is reviving the National Medal of Arts, with plans to honor actor Jon Voight, singer Alison Krauss, Sharon Percy Rockefeller and the musicians of the United States Military in a White House ceremony on Thursday. [Voight, Krauss and author James Patterson are shown above.] This
President Donald Trump is reviving the National Medal of Arts, with plans to honor actor Jon Voight, singer Alison Krauss, Sharon Percy Rockefeller and the musicians of the United States Military in a White House ceremony on Thursday.This will be the first time Trump hosted a National Medal of Arts ceremony, which was last held in 2016 by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
Voight is one of Trump’s most visible Hollywood supporters. He emceed a pre-inauguration event at the Lincoln Memorial, and most recently posted a video on Twitter defending the president as he faces the impeachment inquiry. Voight called it the “highest form of deceit.”In the most recent ceremony, Obama awarded the medal to figures including Mel Brooks, Berry Gordy and Morgan Freeman. His other recipients included Jeffrey Katzenberg and Quincy Jones, longtime supporters and donors.
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