Trump to visit Kennedy Center after hinting at name change as honors announced – US politics live

<p>President has taken over as chairman of the institution and replaced the board of trustees with loyalists</p><p><strong>President Donald Trump, ahead of his planned virtual meeting with European leaders and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy later on Wednesday, praised Europe’s leaders in a post on social media and said they “want to see a deal done.”</strong></p><p>In a post on Truth Social, the president wrote:</p><p>Will be speaking to European Leaders in a short while. They are great people who want to see a deal done.</p><p>Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, “Putin has already won.” What’s that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING. The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!).</p><p>If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal! But now they’ve been caught. Look at all of the real news that’s coming out about their CORRUPTION. They are sick and dishonest people, who probably hate our Country. But it doesn’t matter because we are winning on everything!!! MAGA</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/aug/13/donald-trump-ukraine-russia-washington-kennedy-center-us-politics-live-news-updates">Continue reading...</a>