The board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted Wednesday to appoint President Donald Trump as its chairman in an unprecedented move days after Trump announced the Washington, D.C., arts center would be his latest target in his war against “woke culture.”

Trump is now the Kennedy Center's board chairman, giving him control over a beloved arts institution that regularly interacts with Hollywood

The president solidified his grip on the performing arts complex as the center’s longtime president, Deborah F. Rutter, was fired.

China hopes the Dalai Lama can "return to the right path," and is open to discussions about his future as long as certain conditions are met, Beijing said on Monday, a proposal rejected by the Tibetan parliament-in-exile in India.

Shonda Rhimes, who had been treasurer of the Kennedy Center, has resigned from the board following Donald Trump’s takeover of the arts institution. “Please be advised that as of today, Shonda Rhimes has resigned from the board of the Kennedy Center,

President Trump’s plans to police DEI language and control the Kennedy Center show an intent to use the government’s enormous coercive power over the cultural sector.

After dominating U.S. politics for nearly a decade, President Trump now appears to be setting his sights on the country’s cultural landscape. A Friday announcement that Trump is naming himself chair of the Kennedy Center’s board is a step toward giving his administration a much bigger role in and influence over the world of arts and

"Kennedy Center - panoramio" by jiazi is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. On Friday, Feb. 7, Donald Trump expanded his “flood the zone”