President Trump announced plans Friday to fire board members for the Kennedy Center for the Performing ... Trump would not attend the Kennedy Center Honors in 2017 after some of that year's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has had a chance of leadership, and that could affect who gets honored.

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to overhaul the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by firing people from its board and installing himself as the new chairman has raised ...

Bush in 2004. In 2017, Trump became the only President to skip the Kennedy Center Honors since its debut in 1978 after several honorees threatened to boycott the following White House reception.

The Kennedy Center stated it is “aware of the post made recently by POTUS” after he vowed to “immediately terminate” board of trustees members Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Unlike Democratic President Joe Biden and other presidents through the decades, Trump did not attend the annual Kennedy Center Honors ceremonies during his first term. Shortly after Trump’s post ...