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During President Donald Trump’s first term in office, he didn’t even show up to the Kennedy Center Honors. He felt slighted by the performers, so he shunned the event at the famed John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
In his second term, Trump has tried to remake the cultural center in his MAGA image. Trump “was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige,” Katy Waldman wrote for The New Yorker in December, but “he and his allies made it radioactive.”
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