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Tom Cruise turns down Trump's Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award over 'scheduling conflicts'
Daily Mail ^ | 8-15-25 | Joe Hutchison

Posted on 08/14/2025 11:11:48 PM PDT by MarlonRando

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To: stanne

I said that he did the same thing with Obama that he did with Trump. He stayed out of politics.


81 posted on 08/15/2025 6:58:58 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If you put some water in your gas tank, with your gas, the gas will stay in the tank longer.)
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To: Fury

Yes. Unless somebody is full-throated a Trump supporter, he must be a hardcore Democrat. Sarc. :)


82 posted on 08/15/2025 7:00:14 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If you put some water in your gas tank, with your gas, the gas will stay in the tank longer.)
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To: Jonty30; Fury

Is Trump the elected president?


83 posted on 08/15/2025 7:05:25 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: stanne

Yes he is. Does Cruise have a right to refuse an award so he doesn’t anger half his potential audience?


84 posted on 08/15/2025 7:07:05 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If you put some water in your gas tank, with your gas, the gas will stay in the tank longer.)
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To: Jonty30

“ I said that he did the same thing with Obama that he did with Trump. He stayed out of politics.”

No. You said he did this stuff to Obama

He is actually being political against Trump. Actively

So he did not snub Obama. Actively, as you claimed


85 posted on 08/15/2025 7:13:38 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: stanne

I said he did the same thing with Trump as he did with Obama. He stayed out of politics. That’s what I said.

He didn’t go the inauguration, despite being invited and he turned an award by Trump. He’s apolitical, publically.

Turning down an award is not being political. If he had accepted it, he would have lost half his audience.

I never said he snubbed Obama. He didn’t snub Trump. He declined invitations from both. He declined the invitation to go to Obama’s inauguration and he declined Trump’s offer for an award.


86 posted on 08/15/2025 7:17:14 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If you put some water in your gas tank, with your gas, the gas will stay in the tank longer.)
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To: MarlonRando

Trump wouldn’t let him jump on the furniture.


87 posted on 08/15/2025 8:27:38 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: doorgunner69

You’ve never heard of George “Amarillo by Morning” Strait?


88 posted on 08/15/2025 8:27:40 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: MarlonRando

Yup, No surprises here. The elitist Cruise should go F himself.


89 posted on 08/15/2025 8:30:59 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: mbrfl

“Profile in courage. /s”

You make me laugh.


90 posted on 08/15/2025 8:31:48 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: Agatsu77

here is Ms Cruise picking up an award from the scientology crazies:

https://youtu.be/eZ8ciJZvjyk?feature=shared

Let’s clean this place up!!!


91 posted on 08/15/2025 8:34:33 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: MarlonRando

Tom who?


92 posted on 08/15/2025 8:36:22 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: MarlonRando

“Tom Cruise turns down Trump’s Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award over ‘scheduling conflicts’”

Tom Cruise turns down Trump’s Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award over ‘scheduling conflicts’ but accepted Trump’s “Useless Celeb Lifetime Achievement Award

There, fixed it


93 posted on 08/15/2025 9:16:00 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: Maskot

That’s true.


94 posted on 08/15/2025 9:25:36 AM PDT by toddausauras (47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 )
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To: Agatsu77

You know there have been the rare people who have even turned down a Presidential medal of Freedom also.

What is Cruise being chastised for turning down a meaningless award and honor like that. And then Trump chooses the band KISS, the Kennedy Center Honors are pretty much nothing anymore.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom has been greatly cheapened in the last 40 years, given to people who didn’t deserve it.


95 posted on 08/15/2025 9:29:40 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Fury

“ There’s a group of posters that want groupthink.”

Would you explain what you mean? Or do you want to cower away from this remark?


96 posted on 08/15/2025 9:36:49 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: stanne

Not accepting an award from a President does not mean being subversive.

He has a choice. I think he made the right one. More Hollywood types should.

Cruise knows his place. That he does and people bark about that is indicative of wanting groupthink.


97 posted on 08/15/2025 10:51:30 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

Accepting the election process and recognizing the president is political only in the mind of political people

Group think is denying that Trump is the president not the other way around

Cruise is thumbing his nose at the people of the US

He won’t be happy with the outcome one


98 posted on 08/15/2025 11:03:23 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: jagusafr

What??


99 posted on 08/15/2025 11:51:38 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Steely Tom

Expains why they are unknowns to me, thanks.


100 posted on 08/15/2025 11:53:04 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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