Donald Trump To Visit Kennedy Center Amid Report He Will Assert More Control Over Who Is Honored

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Donald Trump will make his first visit to the Kennedy Center today since he ousted leadership and ensured that he would be chairman of the D.C.

arts institution. While the center has been beset by cancellations of major shows by artists protesting the Trump takeover, the president told reporters that “we have to straighten it out.

It is not a good situation. Like everything else in this country.” The New York Times reported that Trump will address a Kennedy Center board meeting this afternoon, where a proposal that would give the president more control over who is honored every year as part of the Kennedy Center Honors.

The resolution would give the chairman — Trump — the power to select who would be part of an honors advisory committee. During his first term, Trump skipped the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, bucking a tradition that dated to its inception in 1978.