The Kennedy Center? Really?
The VSG (Very Stable Genius) has indicated that he is planning on (and may perhaps have already begun?) firing the members of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees (including chairman David Rubinstein), replacing them with his own appointees, and naming himself as Chairman of the Board. [See the KC Board Statement here]
As originally reported in The Atlantic:
His posting on Truth Social indicated that he planned to make the Kennedy Center “GREAT AGAIN” by terminating “multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture,” and that he would announce a “new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!” adding, “For the Kennedy Center, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!”).
One might have thought, what with war in Ukraine and Congo, the freeze in federal DEI spending, bird flu outbreaks, growing global trade tensions over tariffs, the immigration crisis, the plans to eliminate US AID and the Department of Education, the alarming rise in fentanyl-related deaths, Elon Musk’s 20-somethings poking around inside the Treasury Department’s payment systems, … that the composition of the Kennedy Center Board would be rather low down on the VSG’s priority list, and not something one would have expected him to act upon during his th
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