President Donald Trump doubled down on Monday on his proposed plan to demolish and renovate the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, telling White House reporters that he would “use steel” for the building’s existing structure and redo the rest. “Some of the marble will come off,” he said, adding, “It will be brand new … Read more
The Kennedy Center was reported to have adopted bylaws earlier this year limiting voting to trustees appointed by Donald Trump – a controversial move that appears to reveal the long-held plan to install Trump’s name on the center. The bylaws, in possible violation of the institution’s charter, were revised in May and specified that board … Read more
The renaming of the Kennedy Center led to an immediate backlash. Artists canceled shows. Long term relationships broken. Programming began to disappear from the calendar. By Ric Grenell answer was to insist that none of this is his doing, and to threaten anyone who says otherwise. That sequence is important. After the board appointed by … Read more
YOU NEED TO KNOW Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell is seeking damages from Chuck Redd, the jazz musician who canceled his Christmas Eve Jazz Jam concert at the venue. The longtime Jazz Jam host was canceled shortly after the site was renamed the Trump Kennedy Center on both its website and the building’s signage. “This … Read more
Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell blasted an artist’s decision to cancel an annual Christmas Eve jazz concert, following the addition of President Donald Trump’s name to the Washington, DC arts venue. In a letter, a copy of which the Kennedy Center shared with CNN, Grenell strongly criticizes the actions of jazz artist Chuck Redd and … Read more
Former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie An absolutely broken president Donald Trump on a variety of controversies in what the former governor called a “horrible week.” We start a roundtable segment on Sunday on ABC’s This week, Jonathan Carl blasted Christie for his take on the plan to rename the Kennedy Center after Trump, … Read more
Donald Trump presented this year’s Kennedy Center Honorees with their medals in an Oval Office ceremony on Saturday, but he also made some predictions about how the ceremony will do in the ratings and how it will do when it hosts the event. I mean, Trump said he would do better than Jimmy Kimmel, the … Read more
There can never be too many buildings with President Donald Trump’s name on them. This is what the 79-year-old President seemed to suggest on Thursday while he was participating in an activity at the Peace Institute. “You have a big event on Friday at the Kennedy Trump Center,” Trump declared. “Oh, sorry, at the Kennedy … Read more