This web page was created programmatically, to learn the article in its unique location you may go to the hyperlink bellow:
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/12/nx-s1-5500151/kennedy-center-honors-trump
and if you wish to take away this text from our web site please contact us
President Donald Trump talks to the media within the Hall of Nations on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 17, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
cover caption
toggle caption
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
President Trump’s announcement on Truth Social that the forty eighth annual Kennedy Center Honors recipients can be introduced tomorrow caught Kennedy Center workers off guard, in keeping with an individual acquainted with the scenario who requested anonymity as a result of they worry skilled repercussions for talking out. They instructed NPR the workers is commonly “out of the loop” and “worried they won’t have enough time to sell tickets and sponsorships.”
Trump posted the announcement Tuesday morning. It stated partly: “GREAT Nominees for the TRUMP/KENNEDY CENTER, whoops, I mean, KENNEDY CENTER, AWARDS,” which alludes to a invoice in Congress that may rename the performing arts venue after him.
Trump continued, “Tremendous work is being done, and money being spent, on bringing it back to the absolute TOP LEVEL of luxury, glamour, and entertainment.”
The Kennedy Center Honors, awarded on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., have lengthy been thought-about prestigious, lifetime achievement awards with the principle criterion being “artistic excellence.” Past honorees embrace Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones, Rita Moreno, Herbie Hancock, Dick Van Dyke, Renee Fleming and Francis Ford Coppola.
While Honorees are often residing artists, Trump has floated the names Babe Ruth and Elvis Presley as attainable recipients.
The Kennedy Center Honors has historically been the performing arts venue’s greatest fundraiser.
In February, Trump led an overhaul of the Kennedy Center’s management by dismissing the previously-appointed Board of Trustees, together with longtime Kennedy Center chair David Rubenstein. Deborah Rutter, who served as president of the cultural middle for over a decade, was additionally ousted.
Under President Trump’s home spending agenda handed by Congress, the Kennedy Center will obtain $257 million. That is six instances what it usually will get from Congress yearly.
Jennifer Vanasco edited this story for air and net.
This web page was created programmatically, to learn the article in its unique location you may go to the hyperlink bellow:
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/12/nx-s1-5500151/kennedy-center-honors-trump
and if you wish to take away this text from our web site please contact us
