Trump organizes the Kennedy Center board in the White House

Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump Hosted the Kennedy Center The leadership of the White House on Monday evening and reinforces how much attention he is devoted to the new formation of a leading cultural center in order to revise the social and ideological dynamics of the national art scene.

The meeting of the center of the center in the state dining room followed Trump Burn His former members and announced in February that he would act as CEO. The new board, who unanimously approved Trump as chairman, is equipped with loyalists.

These include chief of staff of the White House Susie Wiles; Attorney General Pam Bondi; Usha VanceThe Vice President's wife Jd vance; And Lee Greenwoodwhose song “God bless the USA” plays at Trump Rallyes and many official events, also during his Excursion to the Middle East Last week.

Trump called it a “hot board”.

“We will turn it around,” said Trump to the center of the center. He said about the running of the board. “When I said,” I will do that, “I wasn't there” and joked: “This is the last time I am taking a job without looking at it.”

Trump has described the earlier programming of the center as “woken up” and “terribly”, while she is more generally trying to reduce federal financing for the arts – and to complain that too much programming promotes the left -wing ideology and political correctness. From his opinion, Form the Kennedy Center To his own processes, a major contribution to creating a new art and a new social culture can make a major contribution to his own processes.

The Kennedy Center announced its upcoming line -up on Monday, which contains the appearances of “Chicago”, “Moulin Rouge” and “Back to the Future: The Musical”. The offers for children include a theater version of the Cartoon hit “Bluey”.

The center previously applied events in July in the value of one week as part of the World Pride Festival in Washington in Washington.

The White House has continued to be canceled by millions of federal spirit science on art and cultural groups previously awarded. And Trump's budget framework has proposed eliminate the National Foundation for the Arts and the National Foundation for the Humanities as a whole.

Trump told dinner that the Republicans of the Congress for repairs and maintenance in the Kennedy Center have pushed more than 250 million US dollars and said that “enormous amounts of money” have been spent there in the past ten years.

“I don't know where you spent it,” he said. “You certainly didn't spend it on wallpaper, carpet or painting.”

Richard Grenell, a Trump envoy for special missions, who is the Kennedy Center, said that an earlier budget contained “26 million US dollars for phantom revenue”. He suggested that behavior could be a criminal matter for prosecutors and that Bondi, in addition to the center of the center, heard the details at a session on Monday.

“She heard the details and that is unacceptable,” said Grenell.

Trump said that the center would collect donations, but added to the building of the building that it would “fall apart”

He said that earlier “programming was out of control of political propaganda” and showed “some very inappropriate shows”, including a “Marxist anti-policy performance” and “Shakespeare only for lesbians”.

“Who really thinks of these ideas?” Called Trump and pulled out of this present loudly.

Trump also visited The Kennedy Center in March to lead a meeting of its board and then complained about “enormous decay” to the building.

The president has convicted a recent expansion of the complex, known as a “range”, in which studios, rehearsal rooms and discussion options are available, and has suggested that he would close the rooms because it was not missing. He said on Monday that he would rather see an open-air performance room on the Potomac.

The president's changes returned by a large number of artists.

The musical Hamilton reacted to Trump's practical approach from Cancel appearances It had planned in March and April. Other performers – including the actress and producer Issa Rae and musician Rhiannon Giddens – have scraped the planned appearances in a similar way.

And since Trump took part in a performance by Les Miserables on June 11th on June 11th in the Kennedy Center, the show announced that many second studies could appear by actors due to boycotts.

The Kennedy Center was opened in 1971 and was regarded for decades as an apolitical celebration of the arts. As a rule, President generally appoint members of the Kennedy Center board in consultation with members of the congress.

After that, they often do not have much contact with the leadership of the center, except to take part in the annual visitor The Kennedy Center honors.

“You are one of the best -known, living playwrights of America and still strongly write,” said Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1984 and spoke the author Miller, who was one of Kennedy Center's award winners in Kennedy Center. It was an example of a commander -in -chief of the Cold War who praised a writer who had well -known associations with communist groups.

In 2019, the center organized an exhibition of the paintings by former Republican President George W. Bush.

Trump was the first president to routinely skipped in his first term in order to take part in the Honor's ceremony. Since returning to the White House, he has been far more aggressive and proactive – as he was on many political and political fronts. He quoted some drag show appearances in the middle as the reason to completely transform them.

“Instead of preparing programs that tear down our country and tear our country apart,” said Trump, “the Kennedy center should be the nation's most important venue to raise the best from our country and increase American art, music and culture.”

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Darlene Superville in Washington and Hillel Italie in New York contributed attached press authors.