US President Donald Trump wants to bring the renowned Kennedy Center, the largest cultural institution in the capital Washington, under his control. He decided to dismiss several people from the board of trustees, including the chairman, wrote the Republican late Friday evening (local time) on his online platform Truth Social. Trump added the chair himself.
Current chairman of John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts is the billionaire and philanthropist David Rubenstein, who, according to US media, is an ally of Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden and was elected by 2026.
Donald Trump is heading against the board of Kennedy-Center
The current board members did not share “our vision of a golden age of art and culture,” wrote Trump. He criticized the fact that the Kennedy Center also showed drag shows last year that had targeted a young audience. So it is over.
The Kennedy Center announced that there was no official notification from the White House regarding a new occupation of the board of trustees. However, members of the board of trustees would have received terminations. In the history of the center opened in 1971, Trump’s intervention was an unprecedented process.
In the message, the center, named after former President John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963), emphasized that this was financed from public and private means. In the course of history, it was supported equally by Republicans, Democrats and Independent.
