Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump will make an announcement in the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, where this year's award winners will be announced for the annual award.
Trump avoided the Honoring of the Kennedy Center in his first term after artists said they would not visit in protest. This year the Republican President has taken over as the new chairman of the Kennedy Center And dismissed the board of trustees, which he replaced by loyalists.
In a social post of truth on Tuesday, Trump tangled a name change for the center, formally the John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts, and said it would be restored in the past fame.
“Great candidates for the Trump/Kennedy Center, Whoops, I mean, Kennedy Center, Awards,” wrote Trump. He said the work was carried out on the website, which “would bring you back to the absolute top level of luxury, glamor and entertainment”.
“It had been physically difficult, but will soon make a big comeback !!!” he wrote.
It is unclear how this year's award winners were selected, although Trump had pointed out that he wanted a more active role. In the past, a cross -party advisory board selects the recipients that ranged over the years of George Balanchine and Tom Hanks to Aretha Franklin and Stephen Sondheim. A message to sent The Kennedy Center The press office asked how this year's winners were selected was not returned on Tuesday.
The Kennedy Center published this on social media: “Briefly in a nutshell … a country music icon, an Englishman, a New York rock band, a dance queen and a billion dollar actor in the Kennedy Center Opera House …”
In the past, Trump has the idea of granting the status of singer-songwriter Paul Anka and the actor Sylvester Sylvian Stallone in the past. Anka was supposed to carry out “My Way” at Trump's first opening and withdrew at the last moment.
The Honoring of the Kennedy Center was founded in 1978 and were distributed to a wide range of artists. Until Trump's first term, the presidents of both large political parties traditionally took part in the annual ceremony, even if they did not agree politically with a certain recipient.
Prominent liberals such as Barbra Streisand And Warren Beatty was honored during the administration of Republican George W. Bush, and a leading conservative, Charlton Heston, was celebrated during the Democrat Bill Clinton.
After award winner Norman Lear 2017 said that he would not take part in a celebration of the federal government in the funding of the federal government in protest against Trump's funding, Trump and First Lady Melania Trump decided to skip the Kennedy Center event during his first term. During this time, award winners included such Trump critics as CherLin-Manuel Miranda and Sally Field.
Since Trump has been taking office for the second time, he has taken a much more energetic attitude in the Kennedy Center and has been involved in his governance. He not only named himself and made the board again, but also announced that he would take on decisions about programming in the center and to end jury to end events with actors in Drag.
Some artists have further criticized the steps. In March, the producers of “Hamilton” in 2026 ran out of the staging of the Broadway -HIT musical and quoted Trump's aggressive takeover of the institution. Other artists who have canceled events are the actor Issa Rae, singer Rhiannon Giddens and the author Louise Penny.
The Republicans of the House have introduced a change in an issue of expenditure that would do so Name the Kennedy Center opera house around After Melania Trump. Maria Shriver, a niece of the late President Kennedy, a democrat, criticized a separate house proposal as a “crazy” to rename the center to Trump.
The recipients of the Kennedy Center received a medallion on a rainbow band, an allusion to the skills that fall under the representative arts. In April, the center changed the lights of the outdoor area from the long -term rainbow to a permanent red, white and blue display.
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Italie reported from New York.