Trump and his board suggested several artists for Kennedy Center Honors including Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Bocelli, Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth.

The president had harsh words for “Hamilton,” which canceled a planned tour there after he took over the center, but seemed excited about a long-planned “Les Misérables.”

U.S. President Donald Trump visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday for the first time since making himself its new chairman, threatening to shutter an expensive new addition and describing the marble Washington landmark as being in "tremendous disrepair.