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New Kennedy Center Board Elects Trump Chair, Ousts Rutter As President

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The Kennedy Center board of trustees voted Wednesday afternoon to install President Donald Trump as chairman of the board, cementing the plan Trump announced Friday to overhaul the storied arts institution with him at its helm. It also voted to terminate Deborah Rutter as president and made former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell interim president, according to multiple people with knowledge of the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

President Trump attended the virtual board meeting.

“It is a Great Honor to be Chairman of The Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after the vote. “We will make The Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!”

Soon the center’s website was updated with several new presidentially appointed trustees including White House personnel office director Sergio Gor, chief of staff Susie Wiles and Usha Vance.

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Rutter tearfully addressed Kennedy Center staff members after the vote at a meeting in the center’s Reach complex.

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