Washington’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center, according to the White House, as the US president extends his influence over the country’s cultural institutions.
The board of the Kennedy Center “have just voted unanimously” to rename the events hub “because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building”, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday in a post on X.
Donald Trump has since the beginning of his term attempted to exert control over institutions that are considered by some conservatives to be liberal enclaves, such as Harvard University and international broadcaster Voice of America.