Kennedy Center

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President Donald Trump dismissed half the appointed trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ board on Feb. 12, 2025. The remaining board members, most of whom he had recently appointed, then voted to make Trump the center’s chair. The board also fired Deborah Rutter, who had served as the center’s president since 2014 and already planned to step down seven months later.

The board replaced Rutter with Richard Grenell, who served in the first Trump administration.

The Conversation U.S. asked E. Andrew Taylor, an arts management scholar, to explain how the Kennedy Center operates and sum up the significance of Trump’s unprecedented interference with its operations

https://theconversation.com/trump-has-purged-the-kennedy-centers-board-which-in-turn-made-him-its-chair-why-does-that-matter-249934

[RealPlayer]

But directing the Kennedy Center could eat into his golf time.

[ShiroKuro]

it's all just so wrong.

[Axtremus]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/12/30/trump-kennedy-center-honors-ratings/

Kennedy Center Honors ratings tank after Trump takeover
Hosted for the first time by President Donald Trump, the Kennedy Center Honors earned record-low viewership of a little over 3 million.

What do I know? I have never knowingly watched "Kennedy Center Honors" anyway.

[Steve Miller]

Everything Trump touches dies.

[Daniel]

It's a memorial for the love of God.

Wrong. Period.

[RealPlayer]

Waves upon waves of artist csncellations.

[Piano*Dad]

Performing at the Center is now a political statement. It should lead to shunning ...

[Daniel]

There are other venues.