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President Trump celebrated a star-studded lineup of the nation’s most “acclaimed and renowned” performers by awarding them newly-minted medals in the Oval Office.

Dressed in a tuxedo, Trump awarded gold medallions to to this year’s Kennedy Center Honorees December 6, including Academy Award-nominated “Rocky” actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone, Gene Simmons from KISS, singer Gloria Gaynor, actor Michael Crawford, and country music legend George Strait.

“This is a group of icons whose work and accomplishments have inspired, uplifted and unified millions and millions of Americans,” Trump boasted.

At the ceremony, the president draped a custom Tiffany & Co. medal around each honoree’s neck. Unlike the traditional rainbow ribbon with gold plates, the medal hung from a blue ribbon, featuring the recipient’s name on one side and the Kennedy Center with rainbow colors on the other. The luxury jeweler donated the prestigious medallions for the event.

Trump personally placed the Kennedy Center Honors medal around each honoree’s neck.

“This is perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class of Kennedy Center Honorees ever assembled,” he said.

Outside the Oval Office, the Rose Garden echoed with hits like Gaynor’s 1978 anthem “I Will Survive” and KISS’s “I Was Made for Lovin’ You,” along with other hits from the performers.

The president also highlighted the ongoing renovations at the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington, DC.

“We are making something really special,” he said.

“It’s been mistreated, a little bit like the White House has been mistreated to be honest with you, and we are bringing it back to a level that I don’t think any place in the country will see.”

Trump, the chairman of the Kennedy Center, will host the 48th annual awards show Sunday, and is expected to be joined by First Lady Melania.

The 48th Kennedy Center Honors ceremony is set for Sunday evening.

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Leena Nasir

Entertainment Reporter

Actor Sylvester Stallone came out with a ringing endorsement of President-elect Donald Trump at a Mar-a-Lago event Thursday night. It was so good, in fact, that I’ll forgive him for not making it before the election.

“We are in the presence of a really mythical character,” Stallone said in his speech introducing the president-elect.

“This individual does not exist on this planet. Nobody in the world could have pulled off what he pulled off,” he said of Trump.

“When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was going to change the world — ’cause without him, you could imagine what the world would look like. Guess what? We got the second George Washington,” he concluded, in what is probably the best public endorsement of Trump in his nearly decade-long political career.

WATCH: Sylvester Stallone introduces President Trump as “the second George Washington.”

But it’s not really even hyperbole. We live in a vastly different country than what George Washington first envisioned. We live in a far different country than our forebears had even three generations back. In fact, America underwent a fundamental transformation in the 1960s, the culmination of our very own Cultural Revolution.

The New Left student movement ushered in a new conception of civil rights and sexual liberation, but it wasn’t just confined to the culture; it was a revolution in law and bureaucracy as well. The Civil Rights Amendment of 1964 ushered in provisions like disparate impact, which morphed into a DEI staple. The Reagan Revolution, far from rolling back the tide, actually facilitated the rise of this cultural Marxism by accepting the government had no role in fighting back in the culture. All the while, the left marched on, as empowered activist-lawyers consolidated and advanced their gains over the decades, resulting in the federally enshrined DEI insanity that we see today. As Chris Caldwell argues in probably the most important social criticism of the 21st century, this was effectively a re-founding of America.

This is the yoke we now live under, colloquially known as wokeness in its advanced and totalizing form. Trump was elected to do what Reagan and generations of Republicans could not: fight back. If he succeeds, he will indeed be just as much a Founder as George Washington.

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Gage Klipper

Gage Klipper writes political analysis for the Daily Caller’s Patriots subscribers. He’s also the resident culture and movie critic, with the Daily Caller’s newsletter, “Cultured.” Equestrian, avid skier and Negroni enthusiast — he’ll die on the hill of smoking indoors.

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