Trump appoints Jon Voight, Mike Huckabee to Kennedy Center board

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

President Trump is nominating actor Jon Voight and talk show host and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), two staunch supporters of his White House, to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The White House announced Tuesday the appointments of 10 people, including Voight and Huckabee, to terms expiring in September 2024.

Voight was one of Trump’s few celebrity supporters during the campaign.

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Among the other Kennedy Center nominees announced Tuesday are billionaire Kelcy Warren, the chairman Energy Transfer Partners; author Karen LeFrak; businessman Carl Lindner III of American Financial Group; and resort executive Kelly Roberts.

Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/435946-trump-appoints-jon-voight-mike-huckabee-to-kennedy-center-board

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Travesty is too mild a word for this...

[irisblue]

1. 🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦

And it occurs to me, how is Huckabee going to work with out gay men?

[Judi Lynn]

2. Only the best! Yessssir. Trump can really pick them. n/t

[Power 2 the People]

3. Pathetic but so totally Trump.

D-List celebrities and the daughter-in-law of a NY slumlord.

[Freethinker65]

4. Kennedy Center Honors Roseanne Barr, Melania, Kid Rock

[highplainsdem]

6. and Ted Nugent.

[itsrobert]

14. and Chachi

Scot Baio.

[Power 2 the People]

11. LOL

[Blue Owl]

5. Jon Voight the dentist?

n/t

[JohnnyRingo]

9. I get it.

Chrysler or Dodge?

[Blue Owl]

13. Le John Barron

n/t

[Chin music]

15. I sold his car to george Costanza.

[winstars]

20. A Chrysler Le Baron, owned by Jon (John) Voight!!!

[Chin music]

26. +1

[George II]

24. When I saw Jon Voight that was my first thought:

There's a Seinfeld scene for just about everything, after all it was "a show about nothing"!

[JohnnyRingo]

7. Jon Voight will be very torn...

Should he do his best to uphold a bastion of the arts of which he participates, or go along with Huckabee and the other nominees to slash funding and ultimately destroy JFK's namesake. Tough call.

[busterbrown]

8. Voight is one of the worst!

But man what a job he did on Midnight Cowboy.. On my top 10 list of all time..
But I hate that man with a passion.. FUCK HIM!

[Power 2 the People]

12. I remember the scumbag trying to break the Screen Actors Union years ago.

Douche.

[Honeycombe8]

16. Great movie.

I had little idea of what kind of person he'd end up being.

[BigmanPigman]

21. He is a bigger "Ratso" in real life than Ratso Rizzo ever was.

[Honeycombe8]

25. Oh, I loved that song. Still do.

He was so young and cute in that video. I didn't remember that. His choreography is a little wonky...kinda cute.

[okaawhatever]

32. I too hate him with a passion, but I enjoy him on Ray Donovan. Of course his character is a total

douche so maybe it isn't so much acting as being himself. He also gave us Angelina Jolie so I figure her liberal donations and contributions to the cause far outweigh his. It's a net win for the world.

[Va Lefty]

10. Is there nothing he won't demean?

Yeah, I know the answer

[EveHammond13]

17. this is just the rape of America. pure and simple.

[EveHammond13]

18. and these slime bags accept the appointment when they know damn good & well it's wrong

[no_hypocrisy]

19. What? Trump didn't nominate James Wood and/or Ted Nugent?

[Honeycombe8]

22. The Board names the honorees of lifetime achievement awards every year.

2019:
Trump, for a lifetime of artistry in speech!

and Trump again, for a lifetime of accumulation of money!

and Trump again, for great hair!

I looked it up, and there are a lot of board members. Looks like maybe 50. Almost all of them are either Fed govt department heads (Trumpers) or appointees by the Prez (36 of them!). And the First Lady is an honorary Trustee. So it's already run by whatever administration is in office, except that appointees serve a 6 year term. So a new President gets to appoint only those whose terms have expired. So I would expect that many are still Obama appointees, since he was in office for 8 years.

Maybe Trump has found a source of funding for his wall.

[smirkymonkey]

38. It's so depressing.

Trump wouldn't know what culture was if it bit him in his fat, orange ass. Neither would his wife. It's such a joke.

Here is a list of the current board and leadership:

https://www.kennedy-center.org/pages/about/BoardOfTrustees

[maryellen99]

39. Neither does his base nt

[onenote]

42. Actually, the Board plays a limited role.

First, the Board of Trustees itself is made up of 6 Officers, 23 ex officio members established by statute (e.g., the Speaker of the House, Mayor of DC, etc.), and 36 members appointed by the President for 6 year terms.

The Kennedy Center Honors recipients are chosen through a process that involves recommendations from the public and an Artists Committee (whose members serve fixed terms) that are reviewed by a Special Honors Advisory Committee that is made up of two members from an Artists Committee (whose members serve fixed terms), two former honorees, and two members of the Board. Their recommendations are reviewed by the President of the Kennedy Center, the Executive Committee and the producers of the annual televised event.


Surprisingly, very few of the Board members have been (or currently are) performers or artists. Voight is the exception to the rule. Indeed, apart from names like Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice (and, now, Hucksterbee), I doubt many DUers would recognize most of the current board members.

[Honeycombe8]

43. The exec committee makes the decision.

It doesn't matter who "recommends" people. All that matters is who decides. It's the executive committee, per Wiki. Since there is no executive committee, I assume that means the officers of the Board of Trustees:

David M. Rubenstein, ChairmanDeborah F. Rutter, PresidentJacqueline Badger Mars, SecretaryMichael F. Neidorff, TreasurerMaria C. Kersten, General CounselEsther Olavarria, Assistant Secretary

All that matters are the decision makers....of anything.

[onenote]

44. It sort of matters, since if you're not on the recommended list

the deciders can't add you.

[BlueIdaho]

23. Trump's taste

Is all in his mouth.

[magicarpet]

36. Rectum....

[Hoyt]

27. trump is stacking the board with ignorant white wingers.

[LonePirate]

28. He fucks up every single thing he touches. These appointments are travesties like so many others.

[cp]

29. Joke?

Makes me sick.

[RockRaven]

30. Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Ronald McDonald, and Colonel Sanders were busy or something?

Even the Dotard should be able to do better than Voight and Huckabee when it comes to appointing cultural mavens...

[democratisphere]

31. JFK must be spinning in his grave.

[Lars39]

33. It's "piss on the Kennedys" day,

between this and the Special Olympics...

[No Vested Interest]

34. Carl Lindner III, from Cincinnati Ohio, is from family of large donors to Republican party.

I'm old enough to remember when the Lindner family, which originated in Norwood Ohio from humble background, were not accepted socially by Cincinnati's elite.
Carl Lindner Jr., a devout Baptist, was generous to Jewish causes as well as many philanthropies in the Cincinnati area.

[DFW]

35. The latest chapter in Woody Allen's "What's My Perversion?" n/t

[Paladin]

37. trump is wiping his ass with everything good and decent in this country.

Why should the Kennedy Center be any different?

[jgmiller]

40. He really likes trying to destroy everything, but all is not lost

I just looked it up and the selection committee only has two members from the trustee's the rest are all past winners and others. So while both of those vile people will try their hardest to mess with things they probably won't be successful.

[LiberalLovinLug]

41. So I expect there will be a new program for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Like this "famous" singer: