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Topic: Kennedy Center

President Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump is arranging his own memorials

Heather Digby Parton
President Trump's Kennedy Center drama continues with changes in leadership after a tumultuous year. (Jabin Botsford / Getty Images)

Trump ally out as Kennedy Center leader

CK Smith
President Donald Trump said on February 1, 2026, that he plans to close the Kennedy Center for roughly two years for the facility to undergo construction. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Kennedy Center teaches MAGA a lesson

Amanda Marcotte
Troubles continue for the "Trump-Kennedy Center" as the venue has now parted ways with the Washington National Opera after 70 years. (Maxine Wallace / Getty Images)

Opera departs amid Kennedy Center woes

CK Smith
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy

Trump has declared war — on the Kennedys

Jason Kyle Howard
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which was recently renamed The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump’s cultural coup is doomed to fail

Heather Digby Parton
While the Kennedy Center bears President Trump's changes in person, a comedy writer preemptively claims the space online. (Hamburg Studios / Getty Images)

Kennedy Center culture war is now online

CK Smith
President Trump continues adding his mark on public institutions. This time, it's marble armrests at the "Trump Kennedy Center," as he calls it. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's Kennedy Center marble armrests

CK Smith
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Construction on Trump's enormous ballroom began this week. Not everyone was pleased about it. Even on Fox News. (Salwan Georges / The Washington Post / Getty Images)

The White House ballroom ain't happening

Amanda Marcotte
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 07: U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center on December 07, 2025. (Photo by Allison Robbert/Getty Images)

Trump's name slapped on Kennedy Center

Garrett Owen
The redesigned Kennedy Center Honors medal by Tiffany & Co., a further change in the rebranding of the D.C. arts venue. (Kennedy Center)

Redesigned Kennedy Center and medals

CK Smith
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's "American Hell" is everywhere

Brian Karem
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Tom Cruise attends the "F1: The Movie" European Premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square on June 23, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Cruise turned down Kennedy Center honor

Alex Galbraith
Actory Sylvester Stallone poses for a playful portrait with businessman Donald Trump at a lupus charity event held at Bud and Marla Paxon's home in Palm Beach, Florida, February 24, 1997. (Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

Trump shares Kennedy Center honorees

Alex Galbraith
Issa Rae attends the 6th annual Micheaux Film Festival screening of "One Of Them Days" at The Culver Theater on October 25, 2024 in Culver City, California. (Photo by Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)

Issa Rae cancels Kennedy Center show

Griffin Eckstein
The cast of "Hamilton" (Getty/Theo Wargo)

"Hamilton" makes more history

Rachel Leah
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Nas, on stage at the Kennedy Center (13th Witness)

Nas Live From the Kennedy Center

Melanie McFarland
Jimmy Kimmel (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Kimmel vs. the "orange stepfather"

Jarrett Lyons
Roger Ailes (AP/Reed Saxon)

Jillian Rayfield
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