but what about the Kennedy Center Honors? Yes, President Donald Trump has made a compelling case for the paucity of good, wholesome, or even mildly edifying programming at the performing-arts ...

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 ...

He and First Lady Melania Trump broke precedent set by his predecessors and skipped the Kennedy Center Honors during his first three years in office (the 2020 ceremony was postponed due to the ...

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 ...

breaking a bipartisan tradition by not attending the Kennedy Center Honors ceremonies. Some honorees in 2017 had threatened to boycott events including him. Before Trump announced his plans ...

Why must every president overplay his hand?” Christopher J. Scalia wrote on X the other day. Scalia, the son of the famed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and hardly a raging progressive, was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kennedy following his assassination in 1964. It is home to the Kennedy Center Honors and puts on more than 2,000 performances in a typical year, according to its website.Trump on Monday named Ric ...

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.

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 ...