Trump Says He Will Dismiss Kennedy Center Board Members and Install Himself as Chair

[lanlady]

Source: New York Times

President Trump announced his intention on Friday to bring the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington more firmly under his control, saying he would dismiss several board members and install himself as chairman.

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

Mr. Trump said he would “immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.”

He added: “We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Mr. Trump’s plan to purge the board and appoint himself was first reported Friday by The Atlantic. He posted his announcement shortly thereafter.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[chia]

1. I really thought this was the Borowitz Report.

Hard to tell tell reality from satire these days.

[iemanja]

17. Me too!

[brush]

57. Yep, as if trump doesn't have enough to do, what with invading Greenland...

re-taking the Panama Canal and trying to contain co-president Musk.

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. Im trying to find words

to express what i think about this, but there are no words. This is the most disgusting, hideous, revolting, evil thing he has ever done.

[VTderry]

3. Is his objection that the inside isn't gilded enough?

Donald, you've been called a lot of things, but I guarantee no one has or ever will call you "cultured."

[reACTIONary]

4. I guess the Kennedy Center will be hosting...

... Miss Teen USA contests and pro wrestling from now on.

[milestogo]

12. Christian pussy grabbing contests.

[Tootbsb]

34. Drug orgies as described by a congressman.

[tonekat]

33. Cockfighting. N/T

[abbeyco]

43. Maybe Wango Tango

from the ‘nuge’ played on repeat, a drunken belching soliloquy from skid rock and wheeling out the living corpse of lee greenwood for his USA dirge. Good times 🙄

[Johnny999r]

65. Trump and Kennedy center

To reactionary, first of all, Trump associating his name to the Kennedy name is an insult to mankind . I have watched many Kennedy center performances and all were guided by the proper principles that President Kennedy envisioned. Now Trump wants to turn the event into another self centered boost of his fragile and self centered ego. What a tragedy and where's the relevance of such an order? He will put on lunatics like Kid Rock and Ted Nugent. The theme will be obvious, complete with guns, a million Trump flags emblazened with Nazi inspired symbols and Trump being lowered to the stage by heavy duty crane at the conclusion of the comedy. Is there a shrink in the house?

[EarnestPutz]

5. "Golden age of arts and culture??" I think I just threw up a little, in my mouth. Tell me, please, that he hasn't.....

......gone after PBS and NPR already.

[Shipwack]

25. I'm not sure about Trump...

But Elon has said that NPR needs to lose its government financing.

All 1% of it.

[Wuddles440]

31. "Golden age of arts and culture"...

sounds like something Stephen Miller (aka Joseph Goebbels) concocted.

[BattleRow]

42. More like tarts and vultures...

[Botany]

6. The Kennedy Center new honorees

Elon Musk
Rudy Giuliani
Tucker Carlson
Michelle Taylor Green
Rupert Murdoch
Erik Prince
and a posthumous award to the J-6th woman Ashli Babbit

[Codifer]

7. Here I am again;

trying to figure out if this item is real.

It certainly sounds sufficiently stupid that trump would do it but quite often some of these things seem to be TOO stupid to be real.

If that is possible with that sick fuck!

[KewlKat]

8. There is so much traffice at the Kennedy Center website, they have a "waiting room" in order for an orderly viewing

I'm number 12

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Changes in the offing . . . .

No more classical music

The Village People, Kid Rock, and Lee Greenwood as Kennedy Center honorees.

[Hope22]

23. Changes for sure...

The Trump Center!

[Tess49]

35. Don't forget Carrie Underwood. n/t

[multigraincracker]

37. He will just run it like a casino.

[tanyev]

10. And Elon and Russ Vought et al., will be very happy for him to keep himself busy strong-arming celebrities.

That will keep him out of their hair while they burn down the country.

[KewlKat]

11. Can't post screenshots but here is the information

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Honorary Chairs
Melanoma
Dr Jill Biden
Michelle Obama
Laura Bush
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Kennedy Ctr Board of Trustees
OFFICERS

David Rubenstein, Chairman
Anthony Welters, Vice Chair
Deborah Rutter, President
Jackqueline Mars, Secretary
Shonda Rhimes, Treasurer
Aswathi Zachariah, General Counsel

Then it has MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE US

Too many to list

So far, no mention of the boil of America on there, yet
https://www.kennedy-center.org/about-us/leadership/trustees/

[dweller]

13. Soon to be marquee posters

😐




✌🏻

[tanyev]

14. Bet the next thing is to order the military to do some fancy steppin' parades like he's always wanted.

Effing child.

[FakeNoose]

15. Is he donating his entire salary in order to become the Chairman?

I don't see how it's in his power to dismiss any of the current Trustees. Especially if he's never donated to the JFK Center for the Performing Arts.

[PortTack]

16. My thoughts too...I'm beginning to understand don't panic, wait and see what the real story is.

[Nasruddin]

18. Now that's an appropriate role for a president

What's next, is he going to do dramatic readings himself?

Perhaps lyre-playing?

[BattleRow]

44. Playing liar is his forte.

[Bengus81]

61. And his lying can be anything,now lying about Tuberville and Mahomes

And of course Tuberville never tells his Fuhrer he's 100% wrong but coddles him.

[IzzaNuDay]

49. Fiddling like Nero

As the USA burns….

[JoseBalow]

19. That philistine knows NOTHING of culture or the arts

[Girard442]

20. The good news, such as it is, is that Trump in total clown mode may be less dangerous.

[tavernier]

21. Oh good!

HEE HAW returns!

[LonePirate]

26. How does a president have time to chair this board?

He doesn't. He simply wants access to artists and performers from Hollywood, New York and elsewhere whose approval he craves more than anything. I hope the artistic community now boycotts the Kennedy Center leaving only racists and assholes like Morgan Wallen and Kid Rock as the only people willing to perform for him.

[FloridaBlues]

27. So far they haven't received any notice on his pipe dream per web site.

Not so sure how easy this will be. Perhaps much pushback. The orange blob seems he’s king of everything. Once we the people wake up we might have a different place for him to go back to

[Rebl2]

28. Wish there

was a way the Kennedy family could stop this from happening.

[dchill]

29. Are they ALL on Ketamine now?

[AKwannabe]

54. Hehe

Prolly

[ultralite001]

30. F47 is going to figure out...

how to award himself the Nobel Prize + a Pulitzer before too much more time passes...

[Beck23]

32. Get ready for the Jan. 6 chorus

[AverageOldGuy]

36. Oh, great.

Now the Kennedy Center will feature Kid Rock, Kanye West (or whatever his name is now), and Ted Nugent. And the Kartrashians.

[Farmer-Rick]

38. Just imagine the crappy talent and bad singing

Pedo Trump will dump there. Lara Trump singing, Ivanka reading poetry and Melania doing her Slovanian sex worker thing. Such classless crap can be forced onto the those billionaires of DC who made sure the pedo got elected.

[multigraincracker]

39. Figures he'll have a free pass to the ladies dressing room.

[tishaLA]

40. Decent, respectable performers will boycott

Rather than seeming to support this charade

[Betty Boom]

41. Oh, yeah. Patron of the arts

never attended a Kennedy Center honors the entire four years of his first term.

Has anybody ever seen a picture of him attending the opera, or the symphony or even a Broadway show???

[electric_blue68]

45. Bloated, ignorant narcissist. Hopefully just a lot of hot air.

[Figarosmom]

46. Sure because he knows so much about the arts

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And has such good taste.

Caroline Kennedy must be in tears over all this shit.

[AverageOldGuy]

47. And for his next move:

He will rename it The Trump Center and put his name in gold letters on all four sides.

[ribrepin]

55. You nailed it

[cstanleytech]

48. Looks like President Musk found something to keep the dimwit occupied with finally.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

50. They'll start serving food.

They'll build a McDonalds in the lobby.

[Klarkashton]

51. What does this have to do with the price of groceries?

[Dave Bowman]

52. He doesn't care about the Performing Arts.

[AKwannabe]

53. Well. Fuck him

He is not honored. Nor will he EVER be!

Fuck him!

[niyad]

56. Who has the actual authority, or responsibility, to appoint the Board?

[ellemb]

58. Can he do this?

[Paladin]

59. MotherFUCK this shit!

I can't even pretend to be any more polite than that. trump is wiping his ass with this country.

[twodogsbarking]

60. We can start another without Trump.

[Bengus81]

62. Eggs went down $2.00 per dozen in a matter of seconds!

[kkmarie]

63. Is that where all the eggs are?

a the Kennedy Center? You know the egg supply that he will release so egg prices come down.

[Martin68]

64. He styles himself a Roman emperor.

[Johnny999r]

66. Martin68

Exactly. His model would be emperor Coniglio.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

67. The Kennedy Center's president just pushed back on Trump's illegal plans to seize control of the board.

This makes me smile

BREAKING: The Kennedy Center’s president just pushed back on Trump’s illegal plans to seize control of the board. This is the kind of pushback we need. 👏👏👏👏👏👏💥

— Paul Eric (@pauleric70.bsky.social) 2025-02-08T21:29:25.433Z

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