The cultural center has actually become the current organization to discover itself in the president's crosshairs.

Trump mentioned that he would be taking over programming at the center particularly to put an end to occasions including entertainers in drag.

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

'I have chosen to right away terminate multiple 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 soon announce a brand-new Board, with an incredible Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!'

The president would be changing the existing chairman, philanthropist David Rubenstein.

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

The president would be changing the current chairman, benefactor David Rubenstein

In a declaration late Friday on its site, the Kennedy Center said it was mindful of Trump's post. 'We have actually received no main communications from the White House regarding modifications to our board of trustees,' the statement said.

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

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

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

Unlike previous Joe Biden and other former presidents, Trump did not attend the annual Kennedy Center Honors ceremonies throughout his very first term, held at the carrying out arts location in Washington's Foggy Bottom area.

Shortly after Trump's post, the site started experiencing technical difficulties.

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

Trump suggested in his post that he would be executing some modifications to the center's performance schedule, noting that in 2015 'the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows particularly targeting our youth - THIS WILL STOP.'

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

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

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

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

The board typically features political powerbrokers and significant donors, and is presently made up of members from both sides of the aisle.

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

Rubenstein, the principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles, was initially selected to the Kennedy Center board by President George W. Bush and timeoftheworld.date consequently 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 long time ally, and Stephanie Cutter, a former Obama consultant.

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

The Kennedy Center is a performing arts location which hosts around 2,000 performances every year

But the current board likewise includes Trump allies, consisting of Pam Bondi, the new president's recently validated attorney general of the United States, and Lee Greenwood, whose song 'God Bless the USA,' was the informal anthem of Trump's presidential campaign.

During his very first term in 2019, Trump announced that he was tapping actor Jon Voight, a longtime fan, to the board, together with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who he has actually picked as US ambassador to Israel this time.

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

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

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