Donald Trump announced Friday that he has appointed John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts chair, and he will soon end several people from the board and current chair. He added.
“In my direction, we are trying to make the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC great again,” Trump wrote in the Truth Social Post.
The Kennedy Center is the national national cultural center and has undergone public-private partnerships. The idea for such a center began in the 1930s at Eleno Arroesbert and was approved by the Congress in 1958. It officially opened in 1971. The centre is known for hosting music, theater, dance, artwork and performance art, and hosts acts from Tina Turner to Led Zeppelin.
A Kennedy Center spokesman said in a statement that he was aware of Trump’s true social post, but “we have not received official communication from the White House regarding changes to the board.”
Some members of the board have received notification of termination from the administration, the spokesman said.
The current chairman of the Kennedy Center is David Rubenstein, a billionaire philanthropist and co-founder of private equity firm The Carlyle Group. Rubenstein has held the position since 2010 and was scheduled to retire this year. After Trump was elected, the Kennedy Center said it couldn’t find a new chair to replace Rubenstein, and it would remain until September 2026.
Rubenstein is a policy adviser to Jimmy Carter and is reportedly close to Joe Biden. He was first appointed by George W. Bush.
Members of the Council are usually appointed by the President. Currently, according to Hill, General Pam Bondy, lobbyist Brian Ballard and singer Lee Greenwood (all Trump supporters) are on the board. Biden’s appointees are still on the board. The first woman is an honorary member, and the council can also designate former staff.
“We have built a collaborative relationship with all presidential administrations,” a Kennedy Center spokesman said, “a bipartisan council that supported the arts in a nonpartisan way” has long been held. He added that.
According to laws approved by Congress in 1958, Rubenstein’s position, which Trump says is currently pushing, has always been appointed by the Center’s board members.
“There is nothing in the Centre law that prevents the new administration from replacing members of the board,” a spokesperson for the Centre said. “But this is the first time that such action has been taken on the Kennedy Center Board of Directors.”
Trump said his reasons for firing Reubenstein and some members of the Council “doesn’t share our vision for the golden age of art and culture.” In his Truth Social Post, he nurtured the topic of queer people. This was something he grew up repeatedly since he took office, and the Kennedy Center said, “We featured a drug show targeting our youth — this stops.”
The Atlantic first reported Trump’s decision to appoint him to chair the Kennedy Center. During his first term he did not attend the annual gala event at the Centre. The US president has been involved for a long time. Trump was clearly associated with the Center after the artists protested his administration and threatened to boycott events at the White House. .
Now it appears Trump wants to come back. Concluding his true social post, he wrote:
