He came about that posture through the Center’s annual Kennedy Center Honors, in which a handful of artists or groups are honored for contributions to American culture. The President and First ...

On Sunday, he told reporters “some of the shows were terrible” and ... set by his predecessors and skipped the Kennedy Center Honors during his first three years in office (the 2020 ceremony ...

when he announced that he and first lady Melania Trump would not attend the Kennedy Center Honors in 2017, after some award recipients that year threatened a boycott. The White House considers ...

The Kennedy Center oversees the National Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Washington National Opera, in addition to presenting theatrical shows, the Kennedy Center Honors and more.

Image Renée Fleming, at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington in 2023. The soprano said on Wednesday that she would step down as an artistic adviser to the center.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The ...

Every December, the Kennedy Center Honors are awarded for lifetime contributions ... In his post, Trump criticized drag shows “targeting our youth,” for why he wanted to take over the center ...

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 ...

“Just last year,” he wrote, “the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.” When reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday asked why he wants ...

in addition to presenting theatrical shows, the Kennedy Center Honors and more. In his first term as president, Trump broke with precedent by not attending the annual Kennedy Center Honors ...

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 ...

Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees The Kennedy Center Honors will return in December with a class that includes Motown Records creator Berry Gordy, "Saturday Night Live ...