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Every year, the Kennedy Center Honors awards recognize individuals in the arts for their lifetime contributions. It’s a big deal. Both President Obama and President Biden attended alongside their First Ladies in 2015 and 2021, respectively.
But in 2017, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump decided not to go. That was right after the entire President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities resigned because of the “Fine People Hoax.”
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