Trump admin updates: Trump teases 'big day' at White House

President Trump on Wednesday announced this year's recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors.

The honorees are country music singer George Strait, English performer Michael Crawford, American actor Sylvester Stallone, disco singer Gloria Gaynor and the rock band KISS.

Trump said he agreed to host this year's ceremony.

Before speaking on each recipient's accomplishments, Trump joked he always wanted to be honored and maybe would honor himself.

"Since 1978, the Kennedy Center Honors have been among the most prestigious awards in the performing arts. I wanted one. I was never able to get one this year. It's true. Actually, I would have taken if they would have called me. I waited and waited and waited and I said, 'The hell with it, I'll become chairman and I'll give myself an honor.' Maybe I'm going to honor -- next year, we'll honor Trump."

There were over 1,450 federal law enforcement and National Guard participants in Tuesday night's operation as part of a surge in forces in Washington, D.C., according to a White House official.

Those forces included 750 D.C. Metro Police officers who were "uniformed, marked as patrol, and directly assigned as anti-crime officers," the White House official said. That was in addition to the federal law enforcement who had been previously mobilized in the district.

The White House Official said that there were about 30 National Guard troops on the ground last night. The White House official said that forces made 43 arrests last night, which is nearly twice the amount they made the night before. The official said that 19 inter-agency teams have "deployed throughout all seven districts in DC to promote public safety and arrest violent offenders."

The surge in federal law enforcement has yielded more than 100 total arrests since it began on August 7, according to a White House official. The official said the charges have included one homicide charge, seven narcotics charges, 33 firearms charges, 10 warrants, 23 charges against undocumented immigrants and 29 other charges. The official adds they have seized 24 firearms since operations began.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will have their summit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday, a White House official confirmed to ABC News.

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As President Donald Trump vows to rid D.C. of homeless encampments, individuals who do not comply could be subject to fines or jail time, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, referencing D.C. laws.

"For far too long, these laws have been completely ignored, and the homelessness problem has ravaged the city," she said during Tuesday's briefing. "Homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment, to be taken to a homeless shelter, to be offered addiction or mental health services -- and if they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or to jail time."

After Trump said this week that homeless individuals will be given places to stay "far from the capital," Leavitt said the administration is also still looking into that.

"We're exploring how we could do that," she said, adding that homeless shelters, addiction and mental health services, or jail "are the options on the table right now."