Tom Hanks has been prevented from receiving an award due to a clash with a controversial order by Donald Trump.
Earlier this week on Friday (September 5) President Trump officially signed off on his 200th executive order to change the name of the Department of Defense back to the name it last held in 1949, the Department of War.
Announcing the change, the POTUS said: "We won World War I, we won World War II, we won everything before that and in between, and then we decided to go woke, and we changed the name to DoD. So, we’re going Department of War.
"I think it's a much more appropriate name, in light of where the world is right now," he added. "It sends a message of victory.”
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While historians have claimed the name was initially changed after the Second World War to reflect the US' position in preventing further conflict, the Trump administration has doubled down that the country is going 'maximum lethality' as opposed to what the newly titled War Secretary Pete Hegseth described as 'tepid legality.'
Now, it has emerged that the name change has had an unexpected consequence for actor Tom Hanks.
The 69-year-old Saving Private Ryan actor was due to attend a West Point alumni event in his honor on September 25, during which Hanks was due to receive an award.
The military academy's president and CEO, retired Army Colonel Mark Bieger, announced the ceremony had been cancelled on the same day Trump made the announcement.
Hanks, who has never served in the military but stands as a strong advocate for veterans, was due to receive the Sylvanus Thayer Award.
The West Point Association of Graduates issues the award to non-alumni who 'draw wholesome comparison' to its motto: 'Duty, honor, country,' reports Daily Mail.
Bieger wrote in the email notifying attendees of the cancelled event: "This 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’s most lethal force, the United States Army."
The axed ceremony comes as Hanks recently landed himself in hot water for portraying a Trump supporter as a 'racist redneck' in a Saturday Night Live skit in February.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration claims the name change is entirely to 'do with winning.'
"We should have won every war. We could have won every war. But we really chose to be very politically correct or wokey and we just fight forever," the 79-year-old said on Friday.
"We just didn't fight to win. We didn't lose anything, but we didn't fight to win."
LADbible Group has contacted West Point and Hank's representatives for comment.
Topics: Tom Hanks, Donald Trump, Politics, US News, Military
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