The nation’s arts community is atwitter with apprehension, doubt, and mild public protests over President Donald Trump’s recent decision to overhaul the leadership of Washington, D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Recently, on Feb. 7, Trump fired the arts complex’s chairman David Rubenstein and dismissed board members appointed by former president Joe Biden.

“We are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN,” Trump announced on his Truth Social platform, noting that those he removed “do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture . . . THE BEST IS YET TO COME!”

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