President Trump Just Added Two Fox News Hosts To Kennedy Center Board: ‘Make The Arts Great Again!’

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After announcing a major shake-up at the Kennedy Center last month that led to his position as its board chairman, President Donald Trump confirmed this week that he is not finished with the overhaul.

He made two new appointments to the center’s board this week, both of whom will be familiar names to views of the Fox News Channel.

As Breitbart reported:

“I am thrilled to announce that Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo will be joining our Kennedy Center Board,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “We look forward to restoring the Center to Greatness, and ushering in America’s Golden Age. Together, we will Make the Arts Great Again!”

Bartiromo is the anchor of Mornings with Maria on Fox Business Network. Ingraham works at the host of The Ingraham Angle on the Fox News Channel (FNC).

At the beginning of February, Trump announced that he had appointed himself as the chairman of the Kennedy Center Board and had cleaned house of several members of the Board of Trustees.

The Kennedy Center changes have prompted some performers to sever ties with the institution in recent weeks:

Plenty of others applaud his effort to lead the Kennedy Center in a new direction:

Richard Grenell, whom Trump put in charge of the Kennedy Center, has outlined the changes he envisions for the institution:

The new Kennedy Center board elected Trump as chairman on Feb. 12. Trump appointed Grenell — who became the U.S.’ first openly gay Cabinet member under the first Trump administration when he served as acting director of national intelligence — as interim executive director amid the board shakeup.

Grenell — as well as Trump — has since vowed that he and the Kennedy Center team will usher in the “Golden Age of the Arts.”

He previewed during his remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February that the Kennedy Center will now focus on performances “the public want to see,” such as Christmas-focused productions in December.

“We have to do the big productions that the masses and the public want to see, we want to have really good programming,” Grenell said in February at CPAC. “So the first thing that we’re doing… you’ve got to be at the Kennedy Center in December, because we are doing a big, huge celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas. How crazy is it to think that we’re going to celebrate Christ at Christmas with a big traditional production to celebrate what we are all celebrating in the world during Christmastime, which is the birth of Christ.”

Here’s some additional coverage of the reaction:



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