The alumni association for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has reportedly canceled a scheduled awards ceremony slated to celebrate actor Tom Hanks.
Hanks, who was set to receive the military academy's Sylvanus Thayer Award Sept. 25, will no longer be honored, NPR and The Washington Post report. The Thayer Award is doled out annually to "an outstanding citizen … whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify personal devotion to the ideals expressed in West Point's motto: 'Duty, Honor, Country,'" according to a release on the military academy's website.
USA TODAY has reached out to West Point and Hanks's rep for comment.
The decision to cancel the ceremony for Hanks, who has criticized President Donald Trump in the past, comes on the heels of a tumultuous transition for the academy under the new administration.
Trump weighed in on the flip-flop with a Sept. 8 post to Truth Social, lauding the academy for its cancellation and deriding Hanks as "woke" and "destructive."
