Tom Cruise was reportedly on the shortlist to receive a medal during the 48th Kennedy Center Honors - and allegedly turned down the offer. Cruise, 63, declined the honor because of "scheduling conflicts,

There is, of course, the matter of the ceremony’s host—self-appointed Kennedy Center chairman Donald Trump. Cruise has remained largely tight-lipped on the country’s current political hellscape. He even dodged a question about his favorite topic—movies—at a Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning press conference earlier this year,