{"id":163399,"date":"2025-09-06T18:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/west-point-abruptly-cancels-tom-hanks-award-ceremony-on-same-day-trump-renames-dod-to-department-of-war-new-york-post\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:15:02","slug":"west-point-abruptly-cancels-tom-hanks-award-ceremony-on-same-day-trump-renames-dod-to-department-of-war-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/west-point-abruptly-cancels-tom-hanks-award-ceremony-on-same-day-trump-renames-dod-to-department-of-war-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"West Point abruptly cancels Tom Hanks award ceremony on same day Trump renames DoD to \u2018Department of War\u2019 – New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alumni at West Point\u2019s US Military Academy<\/a> abruptly canceled an upcoming award ceremony for actor veterans advocate Tom Hanks \u2013 one of President Biden’s most impassioned celebrity supporters who once said that if President Trump won a second term it proved that America\u2019s \u201cjourney to a more perfect union has missteps in it.\u201d
\u201cThis decision allows the Academy to continue its focus on its core mission of preparing cadets to lead, fight, and win as officers in the world\u2019s most lethal force, the United States Army,\u201d read an email dispatched Friday by Retired Army Col. Mark Bieger to alumni, per The Washington Post.
Hanks was scheduled to be honored on Sept. 25 with the Sylvanus Thayer Award, dedicated to recognizing an \u201coutstanding citizen\u201d that did not attend West Point but still exemplifies the academy\u2019s ideals of \u201cDuty, Honor, Country.\u201d
The email did not state whether Hanks would still be receiving the award at a different time, or whether it had been revoked, the outlet reported. 
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Asked on CNN last year if he worried about country\u2019s \u201ccommitment to democracy and freedom\u201d if Trump was reelected, Hanks said. \u201cI think there\u2019s always reason to be worried about the short term.”
\u201cBut I look at the longer term of what happened I think there\u2019s an ongoing \u2014 look, our Constitution says, \u2018We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,\u2019 \u2014 that journey to a more perfect union has missteps in it,\u201d he continued.
In 2021 Hanks hosted Biden’s prime-time TV special.
And in 2022, the “Saving Private Ryan” actor narrated a video in 2022 of the Biden administration’s accomplishments in its first year, insisting the country is “stronger than we were a year ago today.”
Bieger’s email was sent the same day Trump renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War telling reporters that he thinks it “sends a message of victory.”
\u201cIt\u2019s a very important change because it\u2019s an attitude,” he said of the move away from the word “defense.”
The Department of War was originally renamed in 1947 after WWII to be the Department of Defense.
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Alumni at West Point\u2019s US Military Academy abruptly canceled an upcoming award ceremony for actor veterans advocate Tom Hanks \u2013 one of President Biden’s most impassioned celebrity supporters who once said that if President Trump won a second term it proved that America\u2019s \u201cjourney to a more perfect union has missteps in it.\u201d\u201cThis decision allows the Academy to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}