Washington – President Trump visits the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, where he announces this year's Kennedy Center award winner after revising the DC Culture Institution in the past few months.
“This is a very exciting project. We will do something that will run quickly and relatively inexpensively, and we will do it better than ever before,” said Trump.
“I am very happy to be here because we officially announce the incredible talented artists who will be celebrated later this year at the honors of the Kennedy Center 2025,” said Trump. The first artist he announced was the country artist George Strait.
The President said he was asked this year to organize the 48th annual awards: “I agreed to accord – do you think what I have to do?”
The Kennedy Center Preview of the announcement on Tuesday, wrote in A post On X: “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 few months, the President and his allies have expanded their influence on the Kennedy Center. After the white house accused the institution to be “awakened“And the finances examined at the beginning of this year, Mr. Trump displaced the board member of Kennedy Center appointed by the former President Joe Biden and replaced them with his allies. Soon afterwards, the new board replaced the chairman of the center, David Rubenstein, with Mr. Trump, and Richard Grenell became the Interim President of the Kennedy Center.
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The Kennedy Center was called President John F. Kennedy in 1964 in 1964.
In addition to the efforts to redesign the management body and the performances of the center, the President outlined during a visit to the famous opera house in March that “we will make many changes – including the seat, the decor – pretty much everything. It takes a lot of work.” Republican House Republican in July progressive A measure that would rename the Kennedy Center opera house to First Lady Melania Trump.
In a contribution about the social Tuesday of anger, said Mr. Trump, said that the work will be done to bring the Kennedy center “back to the absolute top level of luxury, glamor and entertainment”.
The president, who broke up with tradition during his first term by skipping the Honors shows after several award winners criticized him, whirled the “big candidates for the Trump/Kennedy Center, Whop, I mean, Kennedy Center, Awards”.
The Kennedy Center Honors, a gala broadcast on television, takes place annually in December. The Kennedy Center's ceremony is directed and produced by CBS and is broadcast on the network.
Last year Winner To the singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, the filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, the Grateful Dead, the composer Arturo Sandoval and the Apollo Theater.