Back in 2016, an emotional Garth Brooks was fighting back the tears when he paid tribute to Kennedy Center Honors nominee James Taylor, and then at the end of 2021, it circled all the way back around… ...

President Trump announced plans Friday to fire board members for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and install himself as its chairman. "At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy ...

Hillary Clinton Queen Latifah to host the 47th Kennedy Center Honors Billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein, an ally of former President Joe Biden, was to be the chairman until 2026.

Every December, the Kennedy Center Honors are awarded for lifetime contributions to American culture. Past recipients include Ella Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Sinatra ...

as he eschewed an unspoken tradition for presidents to attend the Kennedy Center Honors — an esteemed, bipartisan award ceremony — and tried to withdraw government financial support for other ...

During Mr. Trump’s first term he broke with precedent and declined to attend the Kennedy Center Honors after some honorees at the annual awards show criticized him. Mr. Trump is known to have ...

The annual Kennedy Center Honors took place in December, and Rubenstein saluted Biden, who was in the audience, for being “gracious hosts” and attending the show for four years. During Trump ...

President Trump announced he will immediately remove several members of the Kennedy Center board and install himself as chairman – claiming the current leadership doesn’t share his “vision ...

In 2017, he and First Lady Melania Trump skipped the Kennedy Center Honors after being criticized by honorees, marking only the fourth time in the organization’s history that a president was not ...

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which was named for her slain husband. President Dwight Eisenhower first envisioned the cultural center, which sits on the east bank of the Potomac River ...

Trump did not attend the annual Kennedy Center Honors ceremonies during his first term, held at the performing arts venue in Washington’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood that opened in 1971.