Donald Trump has announced plans to dismiss managers from the Kennedy Center, including the chairman and himself the leadership.
The Cultural Center has become the newest institution that is in sight of the president.
Trump stated that he would take over the programming in the center, specifically to put an end to events with artists in Drag.
“On my direction we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington DC again,” Trump wrote on his social social platform.
'I have decided to immediately end several people from the board of directors, including the chairman, who do not share our vision for a Golden Age in Art and Culture.
“We will soon announce a new sign, with a great chairman, Donald J. Trump!”
The president would replace the current chairman, philanthropist David Rubenstein.
Donald Trump has announced plans to dismiss managers from the Kennedy Center, including the chairman and himself the leadership.
The president would replace the current chairman, philanthropist David Rubenstein
In a statement at the end of Friday on her website, the Kennedy Center said it was aware of Trump's post. “We have not received any official communication from the White House with regard to changes to our board of directors,” said the statement.
“We are aware that some members of our council have received termination reports from the administration.”
The center confirmed that the chairman of the Trustees appointed by its board members per board, founded in 1958.
It noted that there is nothing that forbids Trump to replace board members, but it would mark the first time: “Such action was taken with the board of the Kennedy Center.”
In contrast to former Joe Biden and other former presidents, Trump did not live during his first term with the annual Kennedy Center Honors Ceremonies, held on the Performing Arts location in the foggy Bottom -neighborhood of Washington.
Shortly after Trump's message, the website of Kennedy Center started to experience technical difficulties.
Visitors received a message with the text 'We experienced high traffic' and were sent to a 'waiting room' in which it was mentioned how many hundreds of people tried to access the site for them.
Trump suggested in his position that he would make some changes to the performance schedule of the center, and noted that the Kennedy Center focused on our youth – this will stop at our youth last year. '
According to its website, the center organized a Voorhow entitled 'A Drag Salute to Divas' in July and a 'Drag Brunch in November'.
Trump succeeded his announcement by placing an image generated by AI as head of the Kennedy Center
In his position, Trump did not clarify which members of the board of directors he would terminate alongside Rubenstein.
He succeeded his announcement by placing an image generated by AI as head of the Kennedy Center.
The board often contains political power brokers and large donors and currently consists of members of both sides of the aisle.
Rubenstein was chosen for the first time in the position in 2010 and since that time re -elected.
Rubenstein, the most important owner of the Baltimore Orioles, was originally appointed in the Kennedy Center Board by President George W. Bush and then reappointed by President Barack Obama and Biden.
The current board contains Biden's Pers Secretary of the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, as well as Mike Donilon, Biden's Longtime Ally, and Stephanie Cutter, a former Obama adviser.
The treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the center is television producer Shonda Rhimes, who organized fundraisers for Biden before leaving his re -election offer last summer.
The Kennedy Center is a location for performing arts that organizes around 2,000 versions every year
But the current administration also contains Trump union, including Pam Bondi, the recently confirmed attorney general of the new president, and Lee Greenwood, whose song “God Bless the USA” was the unofficial national anthem of Trump's presidential campaign.
During his first term in 2019, Trump announced that he was tapping actor Jon Voight, a long -term supporter, to the board, together with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, whom he chose this time as an American ambassador in Israel.
The Kennedy Center is a location for performing arts that organizes around 2,000 versions every year.
It was founded as a National Cultural Center by President Eisenhower in 1958 before being renamed after his murder in honor of President Kennedy.
