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White House Gets Touchy About Trump's ‘One Hit Wonder' Kennedy Center Pick
The White House took umbrage after a guest on CNN said the Kennedy Center had chosen to honor 81-year-old Gloria Gaynor merely because she is a person of color. On August 13, President Donald Trump unveiled this year's Kennedy Center honorees, which include Gaynor, known for hit songs 'I Will Survive' and 'Eye of the Tiger.' Tia Mitchell, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Washington bureau chief, told CNN's This Morning Weekend Saturday that Gaynor had been selected because of diversity considerations. 'I do believe as much as the Trump administration has attacked [diversity, equity, and inclusion], they wanted a person of color on the list of Kennedy Center Honorees,' Mitchell said. 'The fact that Gloria Gaynor is the one person of color on the list indicates that they struggled ot find a person of color to agree to be on the list.' While the Center usually picks 'people who are icons in their genre of the arts' with 'a huge body of work,' Mitchell described Gaynor as 'basically a one-hit wonder.' White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung took Mitchell to task on X. 'Some dipshit named Tia Mitchell went on CNN to say legendary singer Gloria Gaynor doesn't deserve to be a Kennedy Center Honoree and only chosen because she's Black,' Cheung posted. 'Liberal 'journalists' will twist an inspiring story because it involves Pres. Trump.' 'Total TDS,' he added, employing the oft-used acronym for 'Trump Derangement Syndrome.' The other Kennedy Center honorees include action man Sylvester Stallone, the band KISS, country star George Strait, and English actor Michael Crawford. The View's Anna Navarro encouraged Gaynor to turn down the award, saying on X earlier this week, 'Don't do it, Gloria!' 'Look, the woman is a goddess and deserves all the flowers that come her way,' Navarro said. 'But I wish she wouldn't accept an award from the hands of a man who has attacked the rights and history of women, people of color, and LGBTQ.' Tom Cruise also reportedly turned down a lifetime achievement award from the Kennedy Center, The Washington Post reported.
Yahoo
34 minutes ago
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UK and EU at Zelenskyy's side in Washington for meeting with Trump
European leaders including Keir Starmer will join Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a White House meeting with Donald Trump on Monday in an extraordinary joint effort to push back on a US-backed plan that would allow Russia to take further Ukrainian territory. As well as the UK prime minister, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, Germany's chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Italy's PM, Giorgia Meloni, and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, will all accompany Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Nato's secretary general, Mark Rutte, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, will also attend. The unprecedented show of support seems designed to prevent a repeat of the public mauling experienced by Zelenskyy during his last trip to the White House, in February, when Trump and the US vice-president, JD Vance, accused him of ingratitude and disrespect and told him: 'You're not in a good position. You don't have the cards right now.' Trump, after his summit on Friday with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, has reportedly endorsed the Kremlin's one-sided plan to end the war in Ukraine. It includes Kyiv giving up territory that Russia has been unable to seize and no ceasefire until a final deal has been agreed. Posting on Truth Social, Trump accused the media of misrepresenting his 'great meeting in Alaska' – an encounter widely seen as a victory for Putin and a humiliation for the US president. On Sunday, Trump claimed he had made 'big progress' on Russia, without giving details. European leaders on Monday will reaffirm their support for Ukraine's territorial integrity and argue against a land swap plan that rewards Russian aggression. They will also seek further clarity on what security guarantees the US is willing to offer in the event of a settlement. In a conciliatory statement announcing his visit to Washington, Starmer praised Trump for his 'efforts to end Russia's illegal war in Ukraine'. At the same time, Starmer reasserted Europe's red lines. He said the 'path to peace' could not be decided without Zelenskyy and said Russia should be 'squeezed' with further sanctions. Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN that Putin had agreed for the first time for the US and Europe to provide protection to Ukraine as part of a deal. This would be outside the auspices of Nato but would be the equivalent of the alliance's article 5 self-defence pact, Witkoff indicated. Speaking in Brussels alongside von der Leyen, Zelenskyy rejected Putin's latest demand for more land. The Russians want Ukraine to cede the entirety of the Donetsk region, including a number of Ukrainian-controlled cities, as well as Luhansk province, which Moscow mostly occupies. Zelenskyy said Putin had been trying for 12 years to fully capture Donetsk oblast, without success. He said the current frontline should form the basis for negotiations, adding that territory could only be discussed in a three-way format with Kyiv at the table. A powerful Ukrainian army was the best security guarantee, he added. Starmer, Merz and Macron hosted a video call with European allies on Sunday before their Washington trip. 'Ukraine must be a steel porcupine, indigestible for potential invaders,' von der Leyen said, stressing there could be no Russian-mandated limits on Ukraine's armed forces. According to the New York Times, Trump told European leaders he believed a peace deal could be negotiated if Zelenskyy agreed to give up the Donetsk region. They were unconvinced. The EU shares the Ukrainian view that Putin would use any new territory as a springboard for a further attack. Two sources with direct knowledge of the talks in Alaska told the Guardian that Putin had offered to freeze the frontline in southern Ukraine if he got Donbas. The plan would mean thousands of civilians would be forced to abandon their homes in key eastern cities such as Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, which have withstood years of Russian attacks. Before Friday's Alaska summit, Trump said he wanted an immediate ceasefire. Over the weekend, however, the US president endorsed Russia's demand for a peace deal first and a truce second. Ceasefires 'often times do not hold up', Trump said in a social media post. Trump also appears to have dropped his threat of economic penalties on countries that buy Russian oil if Moscow refuses a deal. He has repeatedly threatened to impose secondary sanctions, setting various deadlines and failing to follow through when they expire. Trump on Sunday expressed his frustration at recent media coverage. 'It's incredible how the Fake News violently distorts the TRUTH when it comes to me,' he posted. 'There is NOTHING I can say or do that would lead them to write or report honestly about me. I had a great meeting in Alaska on Biden's stupid War, a war that should have never happened!!!' He added: 'If I got Russia to give up Moscow as part of the Deal, the Fake News, and their PARTNER, the Radical Left Democrats, would say I made a terrible mistake and a very bad deal.' Speaking to the BBC, the former British defence secretary Ben Wallace described Trump's apparent support for Putin's demands as 1930s-style 'appeasement'. He said the strategy – with pressure piled on Ukraine to agree – may save lives 'in the short term' but in the long term 'would probably put us at greater risk'. A joint statement issued by European leaders on Saturday said they were 'ready to work with US President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy towards a trilateral summit with European support' but 'it will be up to Ukraine to make decisions on its territory. International borders must not be changed by force.' They said they welcomed 'President Trump's efforts to stop the killing in Ukraine, end Russia's war of aggression, and achieve just and lasting peace'. Zelenskyy said in a statement after his conversations with Trump and the European leaders: 'The positions are clear. A real peace must be achieved, one that will be lasting, not just another pause between Russian invasions. Killings must stop as soon as possible, the fire must cease both on the battlefield and in the sky, as well as against our port infrastructure. All Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians must be released, and the children abducted by Russia must be returned.' Related: Donald Trump reportedly delivered letter from first lady to Vladimir Putin Olga Tokariuk, a fellow at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, said Zelenskyy had a 'difficult task' in Washington. He had to 'demonstrate that Ukraine wants peace, but not at any cost, to ensure Ukraine still gets US support,' she said. At the same time he could not make concessions 'unacceptable for Ukrainians'. Trump was unlikely to treat Zelenskyy with the 'same friendliness as Putin', she predicted. 'The US under Trump is no longer willing to stand by its democratic allies, while instead it is embracing the tyrants,' she added. Additional reporting by
Forbes
2 hours ago
- Forbes
Trump-Zelenskyy Meeting: What To Know As Macron, Meloni, Starmer And More Will Attend
Leaders from major European allies, NATO and the European Union are traveling to Washington, D.C., to join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his Monday meeting with President Donald Trump—setting up what appear to be crucial talks as Trump pushes for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine that has been raging since the Russian invasion in 2022. Leaders from the EU and NATO will join the Ukrainian president at the White House. Getty Images Zelenskyy will travel to meet with Trump at the White House on Monday. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte will reportedly take part in the talks, as well as leaders of individual allied nations including French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Finnish President Alexander Stubb. Trump administration officials have provided few details about what concessions the Russians may have offered at the negotiations in Alaska on Friday, but speaking to CNN on Sunday morning, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff described the Trump-Putin meeting as 'game-changing.' Witkoff said the Trump administration would likely discuss Ukraine exchanging territory with Russia, what he called a 'fundamental issue' for the Russians, but the administration would not make any decisions for Ukraine when it came to territory. 'We intend to discuss it on Monday,' Witkoff told CNN's Jake Tapper. The special envoy did not offer concrete details on what concessions the Russians may have offered in terms of territory, but added 'that discussion is going to specifically be detailed on Monday, when President Zelenskyy arrives with his delegation and some of the other European leaders,' Witkoff said. 'And, hopefully, we can cut through and make some decisions right then and there on that.' Russia illegally annexed the Ukrainian territory Crimea in 2014, and three years after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia controls the majority of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. The Trump administration said the Russians may support Ukraine signing a future security deal with the U.S. and European allies—but even with the security guarantees, convincing the Ukrainians to cede territory could prove difficult for the Trump administration. Zelenskyy has consistently rejected peace offers that include territorial exchanges in the past, and reiterated this sentiment in a statement posted on social media Sunday, shortly after meeting with European leaders in Brussels. 'There is clear support for Ukraine's independence and sovereignty,' the Ukrainian president said. 'Everyone agrees that borders must not be changed by force.' What Is Article 5? The Trump administration says that Russian negotiators indicated they would agree to allow Ukraine to sign a future security agreement with the U.S. and European allies—one that would offer similar protections like those outlined in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, the document that forms the basis of NATO. Article 5 guarantees that if one NATO member is attacked, it is considered an attack on all member states, and all member states are compelled to take necessary action to 'restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.' Witkoff told Tapper the administration got the Russians to agree to allow the U.S. and European nations to 'effectively offer Article 5-like language to cover a security guarantee.' However, he was adamant that this would not amount to Ukraine actually joining NATO—something he said the Russians still viewed as a 'red flag.' The special envoy did not elaborate on the details of the guarantee. European leaders are trying to avoid a repeat of the tense press public meeting Zelenskyy held with Trump and Vice President JD Vance in February, Reuters and other outlets reported Sunday. However, Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected this notion while speaking to CBS News' Margaret Brennan on Sunday morning. 'We've been working with these people for weeks,' Rubio said. 'They're coming here tomorrow because they chose to come here tomorrow. We invited them to come.' Rubio said the Trump administration was focused on hammering out a peace deal. 'Look, our goal here is not to stage some production for the world to say, oh how dramatic he walked out,' he said. 'Our goal here is to have a peace agreement to end this war.'
