The president doesn’t merely want to break the government bureaucracy. He wants to reprogram what the arts mean to the ...

After dominating U.S. politics for nearly a decade, President Trump now appears to be setting his sights on the country’s ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2017, he became the only president to ever skip the Kennedy Center Honors since the event began, in 1978, following threats by some of the 2017 honorees to boycott an accompanying White House ...