And here is your host … Trump casts himself for Kennedy Center honours | Donald Trump

“THere is a connection, difficult to explain logically but easy to feel, between realization in public life and progress in the arts ”, are among the words scored in marble in the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Elizabeth’s age was Shakespeare’s age, he said.

Donald Trump’s age is Trump’s ego age. Trump the president, commander -in -chief and master builder. Trump the foresight of the next Olympic Games, the Football World Cup and the American 250th anniversary. Trump, whose self-aging is the size of a planet: Wednesday, even the Cavernous Hall of Kennedy Center cannot contain it.

The president announced that he will welcome the honors of Kennedy Center this year – after all, he was on the apprentice, so how difficult it is? He unveiled the Honourees of this year – projected by him to oppose his veto to the “wokes” – and grumbled that he had never been one. He reminded everyone that he had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Nearby, the giant bust of Kennedy may have shed a tear or two as a Trump, wearing a dark suit, a white shirt and a red tie, has advanced in the marble and red wall room to continue its hostile control of the country’s capital – and the country’s cultural life.

The 100 -foot artistic complex on the banks of the Potomac river and its annual artistic prices may seem trivial in the scheme of Trump’s authoritarian crusade. But there are little better measures in the way in which his second term is more ambitious, intentional and effective than the first.

Trump 1.0 never set foot in the Kennedy Center. Each year, honors took place without him, with recipients, including his criticism such as Cher, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sally Field. And there were various queues: Gloria Estefan, LL Cool J, Lionel Richie, Debbie Allen, Berry Gordy, Gladys Knight and Queen Latifah.

Trump 2.0 was a very different proposal in his targeted approach to immigration and crime, his vendettas against political opponents and his intimidation of law firms, media societies and universities. Suddenly, the Kennedy Center, like the museums of the Smithsonian Institution, finds itself in the line of fire of Trump’s war against Woke.

Like Richard III of Shakespeare, who pretends the reluctance to take the throne as a tactic to appear more virtuous, Trump said that he did not really want to assume accommodation responsibilities when his staff asked.

“I said,” I am the President of the United States! ” Are you fools, asking me to do this? “Sir, you will get much higher notes. I said, “I don’t care, I am president of the United States.

But then, in her story, her chief of staff, Susie Wiles, intervened. “I said, ok, Susie, I’m going to do it. It is the power she has. So I accepted … they will say:” He insisted. “I did not insist, but I think it will be a success in fact.

The honors of the Kennedy Center were created in 1978 and the recipients included George Balanochine, Warren Beatty, Aretha Franklin, Tom Hanks, Arthur Miller, Stephen Sondheim and Barbra Streisand. Trump pointed out: “I wanted one. I could never get one.”

A group of Trump lackeys sitting in the scene that burst out laughing and then realized that he was not joking and was not silent. “It’s true, actually.

Very well, now that time, he joked. Isn’t it?

Trump has announced a characteristic male responsibility list for the Honourees: the actors Michael Crawford and Sylvester Stallone, the singers George Strait and Gloria Gaynor, and the members of the Rock Kiss group. While he was talking about everyone, a curtain was removed in his photo in a very retro and low style.

Crawford, he noted, was born in England in 1942 and made his debut on Broadway in 1967. “I was there. I shouldn’t say it but I was there. It seems a long time ago, and it became an international feeling in the 1980s for its original representation of the Opera ghost – one of the biggest people of all time. ”

It was hardly surprising of a man whose cultural tastes refused to recognize the existence of the 21st century, although it was not mentioned there of the British sitcom of the 1970s that certain mothers made the “events” in which Crawford played Frank Spencer, known to accidents, known for the slogan “Ooh Betty!”

The characters of Stallone Rambo and Rocky are more style of Trump: macho, muscular, primal, violent, making no prisoner. The kind of big white hopes that he would now like to see the police in the streets of Washington. The president sounded: “Rocky, Rambo – if you made one, you are good. Do you make two?

“I will never forget that I was a young man and I went to see something called Rambo and she had just come out. I didn’t know anything about this but I was in a cinema – as if we were going a lot in cinemas – and I said:” This film is phenomenal! What is Devil? “And it turned out to be a monster.”

Trump described Stallone as one of the biggest names in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but then remembers that it was supposed to be all about him. “In fact, the only one to be a bigger name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they say, is a guy by the name of Donald Trump. I’m also on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, if you can believe it.”

Strait, Gaynor and Kiss also met his approval. Trump may have arrested five wars in the past six months, by his own estimate, but he still had time to pick the Honourees Kennedy Center by hand and ensure that no agitator, dissident or subversive was slipping through the net. The role of the artist is Trump’s cult.

“I would say that I was around 98%,” he said. “They all crossed me … I dropped a lot. He went too woke up. I turned around, I had some wokesters. Now we have great people. It is very different than before. Very different. “

The Oscars, he said, now gets “ugly notes” because “everything is awake” and “everything they do is talk about how much they hate Trump”.

Just as he promises to make Washington DC again, Trump has big projects for the Kennedy Center, that at least a republican in the Congress proposed to rename after him. Trump promised to “completely renovate” all the infrastructure, to tear down and replace all the seats, and to make it a “jewel of the crown” of the arts and culture in the United States. “The bones are so good,” he rolls.

But if its desecration of the White House must pass, expect the Kennedy Center to become a monument to the chic dictator, dripping from Rococo Gold and scared of fog. Another quote from Kennedy registered on the external marble wall says: “This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.”