Trump personally handed out medals to Crawford, Strait, Gaynor, KISS original band members, Stallone - - at Oval Office Friday gathering Dec. 5, 2025 ahead of Dec. 7 GALA

SUNDAY Dec. 7, 2025 -- evening highlights include 

GARTH BROOKS wearing six-inch platform shoes,

Kelsey Grammer extolling the virtues of

Michael Crawford

and Kurt Russell extolling

Sylvester Stallone . . .

those singing a tribute song were

Miranda Lambert / Brooks & Dunn

-- sang "Amarillo by Morning"

for songwriter-singer George Strait

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Deniece Williams honored Gloria

Gaynor, DISCO's 'First Lady"

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Cheap Trick honored the KISS

band members present (Paul Stanley

& Gene Simmons)

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Johnny Carson was a late

20th Century Media "Star" / entertainer

Another NBC star of a longstanding

series -- The TONIGHT Show

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Instead of giving his honorees the

benefit / insider privilege of sitting

with him and FLOTUS in the President's

box, Trump 2.0 acted as a "Johnny Carson-like"

 Emcee - Host

of the

Kennedy Center Honors

2025

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33 years ago, Johnny

Carson retired after a

generational

term of being the late night talk

show weekday

host for NBC at Burbank,

CA from 1962 - 1992. In 2005

Carson died at age 79, 3 mos.

in Los Angeles of emphysema.