Vanilla Ice Is In, Bret Michaels Is Out: Trump’s Battle for Celebrity Validation

President Trump has pursued fame his entire adult life. Now in his second term in the White House, he is finding how little power he has to force cultural figures to fall in line.President Donald Trump used the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to host a red carpet premiere of the “Melania” movie in January. Mr. Trump’s recent posts were a reminder that the onetime reality television star turned president remains fixated and often tortured by celebrity.