The following article by David Nakamura, Amy B. Wang and Peter Marks was posted on the Washington Post website August 19, 2017:
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will not attend the annual Kennedy Center Honors, amid a boycott by those who are to be honored at the December event. (Reuters)
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump have elected not to attend the annual Kennedy Center Honors in December amid a political backlash among those who will be feted at the event.
The first family will not participate “to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Saturday morning. Continue reading “Trump, first lady to skip Kennedy Center Honors over concerns of ‘political distraction’”