WASHINGTON–Last week, audience members loudly booed Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The crowd was telling the Second Couple: You don’t belong on our turf.
Ah, but there’s a new sheriff at the opera. President Donald Trump is now chairman of the Kennedy Center board. Monday, he took a walk-through America’s culture center and shared his thoughts on the institution’s faults and future with reporters.
Let’s just say that Trump was not love-struck with the iconic cultural center, which first opened in 1971.
It looks “tired,” Trump told reporters, and it has too many rooms “that nobody’s going to use.” The building, Trump noted, is in “tremendous disrepair, as is a lot of the rest of our country.”
Ever the realtor, Trump also offered, “It has tremendous potential.”
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