During a Kennedy Center Honors appearance, President Donald Trump used a tribute to Sylvester Stallone to launch into an on-stage rant, calling parts of the audience “miserable, horrible people” after quoting Rocky Balboa. Trump appeared multiple times throughout the event to honor Stallone, KISS, Gloria Gaynor, Michael Crawford, and George Strait, insisting he “just wanted to be myself” and hadn’t prepared remarks. Data reviewed by CNN shows Kennedy Center ticket sales have plunged since Trump shook up the board and made himself chairman earlier this year. Holiday performance “The Nutcracker” has sold only about two-thirds of its usual seats, failing to cover the production’s massive costs.
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