Trump Restructures Kennedy Center Board with Loyalists
President Trump hosts the Kennedy Center Board at the White House, aiming to reshape the center's cultural focus with a loyalist board.
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Hosting the Kennedy Center Board at the White House, President Trump seeks to remake the cultural institution by appointing loyalists after firing previous members. The new board includes top administration figures and has abandoned events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights. Critics, including artists and some political figures, are pushing back against Trump's ideological reshaping of the arts, marking a significant shift in the Kennedy Center's traditionally apolitical stance and raising concerns about federal funding for the arts.
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President Trump appointed new members after reportedly being dissatisfied with the center's past programming, which he described as 'woke' and 'terrible.' He also aimed to reshape the cultural institution by installing loyalists.
New members include Susie Wiles, Dan Scavino, Allison Lutnick, Lynda Lomangino, Mindy Levine, Usha Vance, Pamela Gross, John Falconetti, Cheri Summerall, Sergio Gor, Emilia May Fanjul, Patricia Duggan, and Dana Blumberg, among others.
The new board, with Trump as chair, has been criticized for abandoning events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights and for its broader ideological shift in the center's programming.
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