Trump announces George Strait, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Crawford, Gloria Gaynor, and KISS as Kennedy Center honorees
New York PostAUG 2025
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The unprecedented political takeover of a cultural institution threatens artistic independence and has already driven away numerous performers and productions. This represents a dangerous precedent of using government power to reshape arts programming according to partisan political preferences rather than artistic merit.
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