The Twain Prize ceremony, which streams on Netflix, is one of two major broadcast events at the Kennedy Center, along with the Kennedy Center Honors. Trump took over the Kennedy Center last February by replacing its trustees with loyalists, and was soon fantasizing to them about selecting the Honors recipients himself. Although he would go on to personally approve the honorees (including Sylvester Stallone and the glam-metal stars KISS), it was too late to swap out the 2025 Twain winner, Conan O’Brien, who had been tapped by the previous Kennedy Center leadership. The event functioned as a last hurrah for the old Kennedy Center, with Will Ferrell and Sarah Silverman among the comics roasting both O’Brien (who was there) and Trump (who was not). John Mulaney’s best line was that the Kennedy Center would soon be renamed the “Roy Cohn Pavilion of Big Strong Men Who Love ‘Cats.’”