WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump said Friday that he is firing members of the board of trustees for the Kennedy Center and naming himself chairman. Details from Correspondent Bernie Bennett. VERBATIM: The President also indicated that he will use the post to dictate programming at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions. Trump wrote […]
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President Trump Fires the Board of the Kennedy Center
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump said Friday that he is firing members of the board of trustees for the Kennedy Center and naming himself chairman. Details from Correspondent Bernie Bennett.
VERBATIM: The President also indicated that he will use the post to dictate programming at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions.
Trump wrote on social media Friday that “At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN.” He says the current chairman, philanthropist David Rubenstein, is among those who “do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.”
He says, “We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!”
Bernie Bennett in Washington.