"Trump will host the Kennedy Center honors" obviously won't be the worst news today but it sure does exemplify some of the worst things going on: the narcissism, the North Korea-style Great Leaderism, the drive to subjugate institutions, the cultural degradation, etc.

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  1. not only did Trump assign himself the presenter role, but he seems to have selected the awardees as well

    like the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he's effectively killed the honor

    In his first turn as the chief of the Kennedy Center, President Donald Trump decided to honor the Queen of Disco, the King of Country Music, the original Phantom of the Opera, Rocky, and Kiss. The choices of Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, Michael Crawford, Sylvester Stallone, and a glam-metal original signal yet the latest example of Trump putting his thumb on the scale of American culture. 

from https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-reveals-kennedy-center-honors-recipients/ar-AA1KsEE4
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  2. Aw nuts! Why couldn't he have carried on his own great tradition of being the only President to have nothing to do with it. From the Wikipedia page:

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  3. JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY was personally flawed in ways that have been publicized to dust, but he had class, intelligence, and unparalleled political and leadership skills. The loathsome Benedict Donald isn't worthy of being named in the same breath with him.

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  4. Have to wonder, whomever is telecasting the awards, are they gonna do it a second time? After the first time gets the ABYSMAL ratings we all 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 it’s gonna get.

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  5. Trump announces Kennedy Center Honors and says that he chose them because of their talent and because they are not "woke".

    He got several other proposals, but refused them because they were "woke".

    Meaning: you do not get a cultural award if you are not MAGA-ish.

    Disgusting.

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  6. If nothing else, it underscores just how much Trump craves affirmation from the "elites" he claims to hate. See also: New York Times; Nobel Committee.

    He's a bottomless well of neediness.

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  7. The Hitler’s Museum – originally in German called Das Führermuseum, was luckily an unrealized art museum within a cultural complex planned by Adolf Hitler for his hometown, the Austrian city of Linz.

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  8. Not sure he got the memo but his need to stamp his style of conservative culture on all these institutions won't hold and won't last. He is a demented old man for thinking otherwise. Maybe he should try his actual job as President. There is a novel idea.

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