(The Guardian) Donald Trump said Friday that he is appointing himself as chairman of the John F Kennedy Center for the performing arts.
“At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
The Kennedy Center is the country’s national cultural center and is run through a public-private partnership. The idea for such a center began with Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1930s and was authorized by Congress in 1958 under the National Cultural Center Act. It’s known for hosting music, theater, dance, artwork and performance art; and has hosted acts ranging from Tina Turner to Led Zeppelin.
Trump said he is immediately terminating multiple people from the Board of Trustees, including the chairman, saying they don’t “share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture”. The president also brought up the topic of queer people, something he’s repeatedly harped on since being sworn into office, saying that the Kennedy Center “featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth – THIS WILL STOP”.
With what seemed like a hat tip to Kimberly Guilfoyle’s famous 2020 campaign speech for Trump, he signed off his Truth Social post saying: “THE BEST IS YET TO COME!”
During his first term, after artists’ protests and threats to boycott, Trump didn’t attend a single annual gala event at the Kennedy Center.
“At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
The Kennedy Center is the country’s national cultural center and is run through a public-private partnership. The idea for such a center began with Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1930s and was authorized by Congress in 1958 under the National Cultural Center Act. It’s known for hosting music, theater, dance, artwork and performance art; and has hosted acts ranging from Tina Turner to Led Zeppelin.
Trump said he is immediately terminating multiple people from the Board of Trustees, including the chairman, saying they don’t “share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture”. The president also brought up the topic of queer people, something he’s repeatedly harped on since being sworn into office, saying that the Kennedy Center “featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth – THIS WILL STOP”.
With what seemed like a hat tip to Kimberly Guilfoyle’s famous 2020 campaign speech for Trump, he signed off his Truth Social post saying: “THE BEST IS YET TO COME!”
During his first term, after artists’ protests and threats to boycott, Trump didn’t attend a single annual gala event at the Kennedy Center.
