“Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued this statement Saturday morning:
Each year, the Kennedy Center honors the careers and achievements of artists who have helped shape cultural life in the United States with a weekend that includes celebrations and events.
The award recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions in the arts and the positive change they have made all over the world.
The President and First Lady have decided not to participate in this year's activities to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction. First Lady Melania Trump, along with her husband President Donald J. Trump, extend their sincerest congratulations and well wishes to all of this year's award recipients for their many accomplishments.”
That is certainly a great relief to all involved, relieving them of the quandary of figuring out how to simultaneously giving POTUS the middle finger while honoring the awardee.
It also relieves drumpf, a man whose contributions to art include a walk-on in a pornographic film, some horrendously bad reality TeeVee, gold plated toilets and telling his architects to make sure it is “big, tall and erect” the responsibility of figuring out when to applaud.
He should have let FLOTUS go, though; her showing up without the monkey f***ing the football would probably received the most thundering applause of the night.