All 17 resigned following the response to Charlottesville, prompting the president to skip the upcoming Kennedy Center dinner.

All 17 of the members of the US President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities have announced their resignation in a scathing letter following Donald Trump’s controversial response to the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“Reproach and censure in the strongest possible terms are necessary following your support of the hate groups and terrorists who killed and injured fellow Americans in Charlottesville,” the letter said. “The false equivalencies you push cannot stand. The Administration’s refusal to quickly and unequivocally condemn the cancer of hatred only further emboldens those who wish America ill. We cannot sit idly by, the way that your West Wing advisors have, without speaking out against your words and actions.”

The respected committee was created under President Ronald Reagan in 1982, to advise the White House on cultural issues, and its honorary chair is First Lady Melania Trump. The resignation letter, which...