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Created Feb 12, 2025 by Graciela Embley@gracielaembleyMaintainer

Trump Fires Kennedy Center Board and Names himself Chairman


The cultural center has actually become the most recent organization to find itself in the president's crosshairs.

Trump stated that he would be taking over programs at the center specifically to put an end to events featuring entertainers in drag.

'At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., wiki.vst.hs-furtwangen.de GREAT AGAIN,' Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

'I have chosen to right away end multiple people from the Board of Trustees, consisting of the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for forum.batman.gainedge.org a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.

'We will soon reveal a brand-new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!'

The president would be replacing the current chairman, benefactor David Rubenstein.

Donald Trump has actually revealed plans to fire trustees from the Kennedy Center including its chairman and put himself in charge.

The president would be replacing the existing chairman, philanthropist David Rubenstein

In a statement late Friday on its site, the Kennedy Center said it understood Trump's post. 'We have received no main interactions from the White House relating to modifications to our board of trustees,' the statement said.

'We know that some members of our board have actually gotten termination notifications from the administration.'

The that the Chair of trustees has been appointed by its board members per governance developed in 1958.

It noted that there is absolutely nothing prohibiting Trump from replacing board members however it would mark the very first time, 'such action has been taken with the Kennedy Center's board.'

Unlike previous Joe Biden and other former presidents, Trump did not go to the yearly Kennedy Center Honors events throughout his very first term, held at the carrying out arts location in Washington's Foggy Bottom community.

Shortly after Trump's post, the Kennedy Center website started experiencing technical problems.

Visitors got a message reading 'We are experiencing high traffic' and were redirected to a 'waiting space' that listed the number of hundreds of individuals were attempting to access the site ahead of them.

Trump recommended in his post that he would be executing some changes to the center's efficiency schedule, keeping in mind that last year 'the Kennedy Center included Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth - THIS WILL STOP.'

According to its site, the center in July hosted a preshow entitled 'A Drag Salute to Divas' and a November 'Drag Brunch.'

Trump followed up his statement by posting an AI created image of him as head of the Kennedy Center

In his post, Trump did not clarify which board of trustee members he would be ending besides Rubenstein.

He followed up his statement by posting an AI generated image of him as head of the Kennedy Center.

The board often includes political powerbrokers and major elearnportal.science donors, and is currently made up of members from both sides of the aisle.

Rubenstein was very first chosen to the post in 2010 and reelected each year because that time.

Rubenstein, the principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles, was originally selected to the Kennedy Center board by President George W. Bush and subsequently reappointed by President Barack Obama and Biden.

The existing board functions Biden's White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, along with Mike Donilon, Biden's longtime ally, and Stephanie Cutter, a former Obama advisor.

The treasurer of the center's board of trustees is tv producer Shonda Rhimes, who hosted fundraisers for Biden before he abandoned his reelection quote last summer season.

The Kennedy Center is a performing arts venue which hosts around 2,000 efficiencies every year

But the present board likewise features Trump allies, including Pam Bondi, the new president's just recently confirmed lawyer general, and oke.zone Lee Greenwood, forum.altaycoins.com whose song 'God Bless the USA,' was the unofficial anthem of Trump's presidential campaign.

During his first term in 2019, Trump announced that he was tapping star Jon Voight, a longtime supporter, to the board, in addition to previous Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who he has picked as US ambassador to Israel this time.

The Kennedy Center is a performing arts place which hosts around 2,000 efficiencies every year.

It was developed as a national cultural center by President Eisenhower in 1958 before being relabelled in honor of President Kennedy following his assassination.

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