I’ll say this: it could have been worse. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not great, but the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees, announced today in a typically rambling press conference by the Center’s chairman, our current President of the United States, really could have been worse.

Yes, one would think Trump would have better—and certainly more pressing—things to do than oversee a performing arts institution, but I guess now that the Rose Garden is paved over, he had time on his hands?

The list didn’t include the names of Kid Rock or Ted Nugent, so we can be grateful for those small mercies. But of the five honorees, I would argue only one deserves the honor. A case could be made for maybe a couple others, but taken as a whole, this year’s class of Kennedy Center inductees is, at best, underwhelmi

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