WaPo: "Trump to host Kennedy Center Honors"

[Grins]

He's going to HOST.

A former reality show slum landlord obsessed with "ratings," whose unfamiliarity with SENTENCES produce the incoherent speech that psychologists describe as "an episode," his babbling like a meth addict on his second day cold turkey - is going to host.

Right now, irony is hanging itself in a cheap hotel.

"My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who is also describing the orange demented rat wearing a fright wig.

[JBTaurus83]

1. That should be a train wreck.

given who the honorees are, I don't think we will be missing anything.

[mcar]

2. ETTD*

Everything Trump Touches Dies.

[dutch777]

3. So after Kid Rock and Ralph Macchio and the Cabinet, who might attend?

[Greybnk48]

4. Who the hell would go to it? Music: Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock.

Guests: Fat Superman and current ICE thug., Roseann Barr, "Dr." Phil, Mel Gison, James Woods, Kelsey Grammer, Real Housewife Teresa Table Flipper and other c-listers

[Raven123]

5. Trump is obsessed with the Kennedy mystique

As with everything, his obsession is demented, delusional, dangerous and destructive. He sees himself as the uber Kennedy. Replacing the rose garden, manipulating the Kennedy Center operations, releasing the JFK Assassination report ( the last one confused me, but I honestly think he self identifies with JFK because of his experience in Butler) and now this.

To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen: History knows Jack Kennedy and Trump is no Jack Kennedy

[PJMcK]

9. Good post

Particularly your first sentence which is descriptive, detailed, demonstrative and democratic.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Seems like an open opportunity to be heckled and ridiculed

Unless he handpicks the audience with kowtowing magat bootlickers

[PJMcK]

10. Other than his sycophants...

… who would attend such an artless spectacle? Certainly no serious artists or benefactors.

Once again, Trump’s attempt to glom onto others’ accomplishments exposes his impotence.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. WHO will take this clown show seriously?

The more legitimate and serious they try to be the more parody it becomes. This is a major league joke.

[sheshe2]

8. That first paragraph....

priceless!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Maddow Blog-Trump exerts control over Kennedy Center Honors, vetoes prospective 'wokester' honorees

The president found time to lead the Kennedy Center, scrutinize honorees, agree to host its awards ceremony and approve an honor for one of his pals.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-kennedy-center-honors-host-ceremony-stallone-rcna224819

But let’s not forget about cultural institutions, too. NBC News reported:

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he would host this year’s Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, his latest move to revamp the Washington, D.C., cultural institution in his image. ‘It’s going to be a big evening. I’ve been asked to host,’ he said Wednesday as he was announcing this year’s Kennedy Center honorees.

.....The president also suggested that he’s inclined to use his role as chair to give himself a Kennedy Center Honor.

Trump: “I said, to hell with it. I'll become chairman. I'll give myself an honor…Next year, we'll honor Trump.”

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-08-13T16:36:07.864Z

But while it was unclear whether this was intended to be funny, just as notable was the way in which Trump talked about his role at the cultural institution. To hear the Republican tell it, he has maintained a hands-on role, personally rejecting prospective Kennedy Center honorees whom he considered “wokesters.”

Trump says that all of the choices for Kennedy honorees "came through me" and adds that he turned down "some wokesters"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-13T16:16:51.144Z

.....So to review, the sitting American president, who presumably has a day job that keeps him rather busy, has found time to lead the Kennedy Center, personally scrutinize prospective honorees, agree to host the center’s upcoming awards ceremony and approve an honor for one of his pals.

“We took over the Kennedy Center,” Trump boasted in February. Evidently, that was true.