WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 17 to attend a board meeting as the new chair, a month after making a sweeping leadership shakeup at the Washington-based arts institution.
“I’m very disappointed,” Trump told reporters after touring the Kennedy Center.
He said the facility was “in tremendous disrepair,” mostly due to poor management.
He criticized the previous management for spending $250 million to build underground rooms, calling it “a terrible waste.”
“We’ll make it great again,” he said, adding that he would work with Congress to secure the funding needed.
In early February, Trump ousted the institution’s leadership and appointed new members to the board of trustees, who elected him chairman….