Comedian Chris Rock reportedly called Democrat politicians “stupid” for wanting to arrest former President Donald Trump, saying it is “only going to make him more popular.”
President Joe Biden struggled to deliver a speech from his teleprompter on Sunday while honoring the Kennedy Center Honorees at the White House.
Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart joined the ranks of Dave Chappelle on Sunday night when he received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center.
Bette Midler, who recently insulted West Virginians as “poor, illiterate and strung out,” was one of the honorees this year, receiving a glowing tribute from President Joe Biden during a pre-show reception. “I am such an unadulterated fan. Bette is a true American treasure,” the president gushed.
Despite President Joe Biden’s abysmal approval ratings as the nation suffers from the supply-chain crisis and crippling inflation, elites attending the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday night gave the increasingly polarizing president a standing ovation.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. jointly announced on Thursday that all audience members are required to be fully vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus, beginning on September 1.
Bette Midler will receive one of the country’s highest cultural distinctions when The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., hands out its annual awards later this year, elevating the anti-conservative singer-actress into the national pantheon of the country’s top performing artists.
“I stand before you as a friend and ally to every American seeking justice and peace,” Trump says in the video.
House GOP are demanding answers from the Kennedy Center, which laid off employees after receiving $25 million in coronavirus relief funding.
A leaked recording of a Kennedy Center conference call reveals employee layoffs were planned before a $25 million bailout from Congress.
The Kennedy Center, recipient of $25 in Coronavirus relief funding, furloughed 96 members of the National Symphony Orchestra on Friday.
American Conservative Union (ACU) chairman Matt Schlapp said on Thursday that the Kennedy Center, which will receive a $25 million bailout as part of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief package unanimously passed by the Senate, should either return the money or “redirect it to a DC charity helping victims” of the coronavirus.
“I said, ‘That’s a lousy soundbite, that’s not a good soundbite,’ but that’s the way life works,” Trump said.
Democrat congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar deleted a tweet Tuesday in which he had complained about pork projects in the stimulus bill proposed Monday by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
The storied J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is celebrating the Christmas season by staging a drag queen show starring “genre-defying drag artist and MacArthur ‘genius’ Taylor Mac.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian Dave Chappelle has been chosen to receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
