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 ...

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The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual awards event that celebrates lifetime artistic achievements ... This past October, the Kennedy Center hosted a Dancing Queens Drag Brunch at its Roof Terrace ...

Unlike former President Joe Biden and other commanders in chief through the decades, Trump did not attend the annual Kennedy Center Honors ceremonies during his first term, held at the performing ...

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 ...

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 ...

He broke tradition in his first term by not attending The Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, after some of the honorees said they would boycott the reception hosted at the White House. In his social ...

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President Trump says he is taking over leadership of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. He declared himself chairman of Washington D.C.'s long-celebrated cultural institution on Friday.

During his first term in office, Trump declined to attend the annual Kennedy Center Honors, considered the top award for achievement in the arts. In December, at the last show attended by ...