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In his first turn as the chief of the Kennedy Center, President Donald Trump decided to honor the Queen of Disco, the King of Country Music, the original Phantom of the Opera, Rocky, and Kiss. The choices of Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, Michael Crawford, and Sylvester Stallone—plus Gloria Gaynor and Kiss—as the recipients of this year’s prestigious Kennedy Center Honors signal yet the latest example of Trump putting his thumb on the scale of American culture.
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Earlier this year, Trump fired the Kennedy Center’s board and its chairman and forced out its day-to-day leader. In their place, Trump appointed loyalists, who in turn declared him the chair of the nation’s temple to the performing arts. And since then, performers and tours have canceled stops there in protest, and some marquee artistic partners have resigned their roles advising the center on programming choices. And other events, including those around World Pride, saw the curtain coming down before opening night.
The result has been what typically was seen as a tribute to the slain 35th President worthy of bipartisan support becoming the latest flashpoint in Trump’s never-ending stream of culture-war spats, going so far as to suggest the complex on the Potomac might be better called the “Kennedy/ Trump Center.” After all, the President and Vice President J.D. Vance have giant portraits hanging at the entrance of the building, along with those of their wives. House Republicans, meanwhile, have proposed renaming the giant Opera House for First Lady Melania Trump.
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