Deborah Rutter served as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for a decade. This week, she was fired. President Trump had replaced many board members with his own supporters. Then, on Wednesday, the new board elected Trump as the center's new chair.
It was a fulfillment of the promise President Trump repeated on Monday to become chairman, along with promising the Kennedy Center's performances would be "good" and "not woke."
Trump previously said that he had never been to a show at the Kennedy Center. "I didn't want to go," he said during a gaggle aboard Air Force One on Sunday. "There was nothing I wanted to see."
