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The cultural center has become the most recent organization 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 chosen to instantly 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 quickly reveal a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!'

The president would be replacing the present chairman, philanthropist David Rubenstein.

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

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

In a statement late Friday on its site, bytes-the-dust.com the Kennedy Center said it knew Trump's post. 'We have received no main communications from the White House concerning changes to our board of trustees,' the declaration said.

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

The Center verified 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 forbidding Trump from changing board members however it would mark the 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 ceremonies during his first term, held at the carrying out arts location in Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood.

Shortly after Trump's post, photorum.eclat-mauve.fr 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 the number of 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 efficiency schedule, noting that last year 'the Kennedy Center included Drag Shows specifically our youth - THIS WILL STOP.'

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

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

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

He followed up his statement by posting an AI generated picture of him as head of the Kennedy Center.

The board often includes political powerbrokers and significant donors, and is currently comprised of members from both sides of the aisle.

Rubenstein was very first chosen 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 present board features Biden's White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, along with Mike Donilon, Biden's longtime ally, and Stephanie Cutter, akropolistravel.com a previous Obama adviser.

The treasurer of the center's board of trustees is television manufacturer Shonda Rhimes, who hosted fundraisers for Biden before he abandoned his reelection bid last summer.

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

But the current board also features Trump allies, including Pam Bondi, the brand-new president's just recently verified chief law officer, and Lee Greenwood, whose song 'God Bless the USA,' was the unofficial anthem of Trump's presidential campaign.

During his first term in 2019, Trump announced that he was tapping actor Jon Voight, utahsyardsale.com a long time advocate, to the board, along 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 location 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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