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 ...

Past recipients include Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Reba McEntire, and… Garth Brooks. Back in 2016, an emotional Garth Brooks was fighting back the tears ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Back in his first term, Trump declined to attend the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony in 2017 after some honorees were critical of him. The honorees included Carmen de Lavallade, Gloria Estefan ...

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 ...

Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. / 46th Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. / AP Photo/Ben Curtis / Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Trump has sought to reshape the use of executive authority ...

the Kennedy Center Honors, in his first term. The board has been split equally between Biden’s appointees and Trump’s appointees from his first term. Per The Washington Post, Biden appointed a ...

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 ...

Bush and reappointed by former presidents Obama and Biden. Mr. Biden attended the annual Kennedy Center Honors for all four years of his presidency, but Mr. Trump declined to attend the star ...