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Donald Trump To Visit Kennedy Center Amid Report He Will Assert More Control Over Who Is Honored
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One of them, Norman Lear, said that while he would attend, he would skip the pre-ceremony reception at the White House in protest of the president’s proposed cuts in arts funding. But Trump ousted Biden’s appointees, and instead installed his own loyalists and supporters, including his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. Last week, Vice President JD Vance was booed as he entered for a performance of the National Symphony Orchestra, a reflection of what has been the center’s core audience: Democratic strongholds in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, including many government workers hit by the Trump administration’s widespread cuts to the federal workforce.
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