{"id":2002482,"date":"2025-09-06T19:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2002482"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:06:58","slug":"west-point-association-of-graduates-cancels-award-ceremony-intended-to-honor-tom-hanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/west-point-association-of-graduates-cancels-award-ceremony-intended-to-honor-tom-hanks\/","title":{"rendered":"West Point Association of Graduates Cancels Award Ceremony Intended to Honor Tom Hanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The West Point Association of Graduates has canceled an award ceremony intended to honor two-time Oscar winner <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000158\/\">Tom Hanks<\/a>, according to the Washington Post. The move comes as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874339\/\">President Donald Trump<\/a> has continued to intervene with Ivy League institutions and military academies across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>West Point Association of Graduates President and CEO Mark Bieger announced the cancellation in a faculty email on Friday, claiming the decision will better enable West Point to \u201cfocus on its core mission of preparing cadets to lead, fight, and win as officers in the world\u2019s most lethal force, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0141760\/\">United States Army<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reps for the West Point Association of Graduates did not immediately respond to Variety\u2018s request for comment. Reps for Hanks also did not immediately respond to Variety\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Hanks was set to receive the Sylvanus Thayer Award on Sept. 25. The award is meant to celebrate an \u201coutstanding&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Point Association of Graduates has canceled an award ceremony intended to honor two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks, according to the Washington Post. The move comes as President Donald Trump has continued to intervene with Ivy League institutions and military academies across the nation. West Point Association of Graduates President and CEO Mark Bieger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2002483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2002482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/West-Point-Association-of-Graduates-Cancels-Award-Ceremony-Intended-to.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}