{"id":694,"date":"2025-12-26T03:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=694"},"modified":"2025-12-26T03:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:23:23","slug":"christmas-concert-at-trump-kennedy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Christmas concert at Trump-Kennedy Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"299\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"24\">Concert Cancellation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"299\">A Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled after longtime performer Chuck Redd withdrew.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"299\">He objected to the center adding Donald Trump\u2019s name to its branding, saying it conflicted with the concert\u2019s holiday spirit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"299\">The event had run for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"589\"><strong data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"328\">Backlash and Opposition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"589\">Artists, cultural leaders, and lawmakers criticized the decision, warning of political pressure on national arts institutions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"589\">Members of the Kennedy family said the change violates the center\u2019s purpose as a nonpartisan memorial to President John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"795\"><strong data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"611\">Trump\u2019s Response<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"795\">Trump said he was surprised but honored by the naming decision.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"795\">He described it as part of a broader effort to challenge what he calls \u201cwoke\u201d culture in publicly funded arts spaces.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"797\" data-end=\"1004\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"797\" data-end=\"813\">Wider Debate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"797\" data-end=\"1004\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Legal challenges question whether the move follows the Kennedy Center\u2019s founding law.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"797\" data-end=\"1004\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The controversy has renewed debate over political influence, artistic independence, and public memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concert Cancellation A Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled after longtime performer Chuck Redd withdrew. He objected to the center adding Donald Trump\u2019s name to its branding, saying it conflicted with the concert\u2019s holiday spirit. The event had run for over 20 years. Backlash and Opposition Artists, cultural leaders, and lawmakers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}