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The cultural center has ended up being the most recent organization to discover itself in the .

Trump specified that he would be taking control of programs at the center specifically to put an end to occasions including 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 chosen to instantly end 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 new Board, with a fantastic Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!'

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

Donald Trump has actually revealed strategies 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 site, the Kennedy Center said it knew Trump's post. 'We have received no main communications from the White House regarding changes to our board of trustees,' the statement said.

'We know 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 selected by its board members per governance established in 1958.

It kept in mind that there is absolutely nothing forbidding Trump from changing 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 previous presidents, Trump did not participate in the annual Kennedy Center Honors events throughout his first term, held at the performing arts venue in Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood.

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 how lots of hundreds of people were attempting to access the website ahead of them.

Trump suggested in his post that he would be implementing some modifications to the center's efficiency schedule, noting that in 2015 'the Kennedy Center included Drag Shows particularly 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 announcement by posting an AI created picture of him as head of the Kennedy Center

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

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

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

Rubenstein was very first elected 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 subsequently reappointed by President Barack Obama and Biden.

The current board features Biden's White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, as well as Mike Donilon, Biden's long time ally, and Stephanie Cutter, a previous 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 quote last summer.

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

But the existing board likewise includes Trump allies, including Pam Bondi, the new president's recently verified chief law officer, and Lee Greenwood, whose tune 'God Bless the USA,' was the informal anthem of Trump's governmental campaign.

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

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

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

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