President Donald Trump did not hold back in disparaging the world-famous John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, where he attended his first board meeting as new chair.
In February, Trump announced that he would “immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture. We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP.”
"It's in tremendous disrepair," Trump said while touring the facility this week. "As is a lot of the rest of our country. Most of it, is because of bad management. This is a shame what I've watched and witnessed. They spent a fortune, $250 million, and they've built these rooms that nobody's gonna use. Rooms underground. And I've often wondered, what are the big cubes that they have outside that block the view? They're cubes with a door in them so they can get down to rooms that nobody's going to use. And it's a shame. It's a shame."...
