Donald Trump Continues to Have Nothing Nice to Say About the Kennedy Center

President Donald J. Trump — who recently overhauled the once-bipartisan board of directors at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and installed it with loyalists who elected him to serve as its chairman — held court Monday in a place that he had not publicly visited during either of his terms in office: the Kennedy Center.

In an unprecedented move that follows numerous other unprecedented moves at the Kennedy Center over the past month, Trump convened a meeting of the arts institution’s board in the Center’s Concert Hall, the same place where J.D. Vance and the Second Lady, Usha Vance, were booed by the audience at a National Symphony Orchestra performance last Thursday night, a moment that spawned multiple viral videos.

Kennedy Center board meetings are not normally held in performance spaces, and Trump seemed displeased by some of the logistics involved in doing so. In remarks made prior to the board meeting before a small gaggle of White House reporters, Trump bemoaned that Lee Greenwood, singer of Trump’s favorite song, “God Bless the USA,” and a newly appointed board member, could not sing at the meeting because it was going to cost “$30,000 to move a piano.” Then Trump added: “We’re going to have a little problem with the people who work here.”

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