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

Trump specified that he would be taking over programs at the center particularly to put an end to occasions featuring entertainers in drag.

'At my instructions, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN,' Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

'I have actually decided to instantly terminate numerous people from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.

'We will quickly announce a brand-new Board, trademarketclassifieds.com with an incredible Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!'

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

In a statement late Friday on its website, the Kennedy Center said it understood Trump's post. 'We have gotten no main communications from the White House regarding changes to our board of trustees,' the declaration said.

'We are mindful that some members of our board have actually received termination notices from the administration.'

The Center confirmed that the Chair of trustees has actually been designated by its board members per governance established in 1958.

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

Unlike former Joe Biden and other former presidents, Trump did not go to the annual Kennedy Center Honors events throughout his first term, held at the performing arts venue in Washington's Foggy Bottom community.

Shortly after Trump's post, bbarlock.com the Kennedy Center website started experiencing technical troubles.

Visitors got a message reading 'We are experiencing high traffic' and were rerouted to a 'waiting room' that listed how numerous hundreds of people were trying to access the website ahead of them.

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

According to its website, the center in July hosted a preshow entitled 'A Drag Salute to Divas' and bio.rogstecnologia.com.br a November 'Drag Brunch.'

Trump followed up his announcement by publishing an AI produced 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 announcement by posting an AI generated picture of him as head of the Kennedy Center.

The board typically includes political powerbrokers and bio.rogstecnologia.com.br significant donors, and is currently comprised of members from both sides of the aisle.

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

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

The current board features Biden's White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, valetinowiki.racing as well as Mike Donilon, Biden's long time ally, and Stephanie Cutter, biolink.palcurr.com 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 deserted his reelection bid last summertime.

The Kennedy Center is a carrying out arts venue which hosts around 2,000 performances every year

But the present board likewise features Trump allies, consisting of Pam Bondi, the brand-new president's recently verified attorney general, and Lee Greenwood, whose tune 'God Bless the USA,' was the unofficial anthem of Trump's governmental campaign.

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

The Kennedy Center is a carrying out arts venue 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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