Trump cheers West Point’s cancellation of award ceremony for Tom Hanks

Actor Tom Hanks’s planned West Point honour is cancelled arsenic President Donald Trump praises moves against critics of his administration.

United States President Donald Trump has praised a determination by the prestigious subject academy West Point to cancel a ceremonial honouring Oscar-winning histrion Tom Hanks, a predominant professional of Trump.

Trump, who has sought to purge critics from government institutions and ace down connected dissent, celebrated the determination successful a societal media station connected Monday.

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“Our large West Point (getting greater each the time!) has smartly cancelled the Award Ceremony for histrion Tom Hanks. Important move!” Trump said. “We don’t request destructive, WOKE recipients getting our cherished American Awards!!!”

Hanks, who has starred successful galore films acceptable during World War II and been an avid protagonist of veterans of the equipped services, has been a crisp professional of Trump.

He was acceptable to person the Sylvanus Thayer Award from the West Point Association of Graduates (WPAOG), which is granted to radical whose accomplishments further the US nationalist interests and ideals of the subject academy.

The celebrated histrion was acceptable to person the grant astatine a WPAOG ceremonial connected September 25, and the Washington Post has reported that it is unclear whether Hanks volition inactive person the grant without the accompanying ceremony.

Known for his starring relation successful the World War II movie Saving Private Ryan, Hanks has been astatine the forefront of efforts to dramatise and commemorate US efforts during that conflict.

He besides produced respective fashionable miniseries depicting US forces successful assorted theatres during World War II, specified arsenic Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Masters of the Air.

Hanks – who besides served arsenic a nationalist spokesperson for the World War II memorial run and was seat of the D-day depository superior run – had expressed excitement astir visiting West Point.

“To person my archetypal ever sojourn to the Academy beryllium to judge specified an honour arsenic the Thayer Award is simply astounding,” a WPAOG connection had quoted Hanks arsenic saying.

Earlier this year, the Trump medication ordered West Point to discard books and resources connected topics specified arsenic transgender people, diversity, and anti-racism.

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