President Donald Trump is publicly famous for canceling the reported ceremony to honor actor Tom Hanks at the prestigious American Military Academy in West Point.
Hanks was scheduled to receive the Silvanos Thier Award for the year 2025 later this month by the West Point Graduate Association, according to a statement issued by the group of graduates. The award was appointed to acknowledge the work of Hanks throughout his cinematic career, which supported “the veterans, the army and the American space program.
But the ceremony is no longer happening, according to an email you obtained Washington Post. According to what was reported, the e -mail was sent to faculty members by retired Colonel Mark Pegence, the president of the association, announced the cancellation. However, e -mail did not explain whether the award was still awarded to Hynix.
West Point or West Point Association did not respond to the graduates of multiple requests to comment from NBC News.
Trump praised the cancellation in a After the social truth Monday morning.
“He intelligently canceled the West Point (which has become bigger!).” An important step! We do not need to be destroyed, woke up to our dear American prizes !!! “
Hanks representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.
Hanks has criticized Trump in the past, describing Trump’s vulgar comments in The 2005 “Access Hollywood” interview was leaked with Billy Bush as an attack. The actor also supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
in 2016 interview with the BBCHanks Trump as “self -self -gas” and added that it would be a “dark day” if elected.
Thaayer Award for Madani embodies “personal dedication to the supreme ideal expressed in the West Point slogan:” duty, honor, country “. The first press statement by the West Point Association said to the graduates. The Chairman of the Board, Robert A. McDonald in all his work in representing the army in the release.
“Tom Hanks has done more for the positive photography of a member of the American service, more to care for the American veteran, their care providers and their family, and more than that for the American space program and all the branches of the government more than many other Americans,” McDonald said.
Hanks starred in the movie “Rescue of the Private Sector”, which is the movie “Oscar Soldier”, a movie of paratroopers who leave the enemy lines to save one of them. He achieved the role of Captain John Miller, who led the group, Hanks, the Academy Award nominated.
It includes a lot of the list of prolonged credit for you either the roles championship or the production of credit in projects that tell the stories of American soldiers. In 2001, a limited “Band of Prothes” series produced, “Pacific Ocean” in 2010, and the 2024 “Master of the Air” series.
He also starred in films such as “Greyhound”, which focuses on the battle of the Atlantic Ocean, and “Apollo 13”, which explores the fatal challenges of the American Space Program.