President Donald Trump is MAGA-fying the Kennedy Middle, saying on his Reality Social that he intends to right away fireplace the board of administrators for the Kennedy Middle and put somebody pleasant to the presidency in cost: himself.
“At my course, we’re going to make the Kennedy Middle in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN,” he wrote. “I’ve determined to right away terminate a number of people from the Board of Trustees, together with the Chairman, who don’t share our Imaginative and prescient for a Golden Age in Arts and Tradition. We’ll quickly announce a brand new Board, with a tremendous Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!”
Trump in his Reality Social submit took difficulty with “Drag Reveals particularly focusing on our youth.” Final 12 months, the Kennedy Middle hosted occasions similar to “Broadway Drag Brunch” and “Dancing Queens Drag Brunch” on the Middle’s rooftop restaurant, in addition to “A Drag Salute to Divas,” “Bertha: Grateful Drag,” and “Dixie’s Tupperware Celebration” all year long, the latter particularly within the Household Theater.
It’s the most recent in a line of assaults on the LGBTQ and particularly transgender neighborhood, with the Trump administration eradicating the “T” from its LGBT documentation and with Trump this week signing an govt order banning trans ladies from competing in ladies’s sports activities.
The Kennedy Middle’s present chairman is David Rubenstein, who was meant to carry the place via 2026 as a part of a six-year time period, so it’s unclear if Trump has the authority to fireplace him so swiftly.
Again in his first time period, Trump declined to attend the Kennedy Middle Honors ceremony in 2017 after some honorees have been essential of him. The honorees included Carmen de Lavallade, Gloria Estefan, LL Cool J, Norman Lear, and Lionel Richie.
Trump has taken another steps into the humanities and leisure world, together with appointing Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, and Jon Voight as particular ambassadors to Hollywood, which he says was “troubled.”
At this writing, the web site to the Kennedy Middle Honors states that it’s experiencing monumental visitors and featured a queue much like ready in a queue to purchase live performance tickets.
The Kennedy Middle Honors most just lately acknowledged Francis Ford Coppola amongst its 2024 class.