Trump says he's firing Kennedy Center board members and naming himself chairman

Reporting cited here

1. reported

   Trump announced that he would remove multiple Kennedy Center trustees, including chair David Rubenstein, install a new board, become chair and direct programming. The Center said the mass removal was unprecedented in its governance history.

   AP paragraphs on Trump's announcement and Center response; presidential digest February 7 entry

   Trump removes Kennedy Center trustees and announces control over programming · Board replacement carried out; Trump later elected chair

2. documented

   Trump removed Kennedy Center trustees, installed major inaugural donor Robert Kraft's wife Dana on the replacement board and became chair. That board removed leadership, stripped ex officio voting rights, declared an off-agenda Trump renaming unanimous after dissent was muted and exterior signage had already been prepared or purchased, and pursued closure decisions that courts repeatedly blocked or constrained. The institution then recorded artist departures, displaced programming and internal forecasts of earned revenue 70 percent below budget and contributed revenue 25 percent below budget. Behind Dana Kraft's appointment, Robert Kraft's documented power network includes a $1 million Trump inaugural contribution, $3 million to AIPAC's super PAC, a $20 million FCAS commitment, a stadium-based online-monitoring operation and control of Gillette Stadium. His file also records police allegations that he paid for sex twice, the trafficking premise and later prosecutorial retreat in that investigation, suppression of the surveillance, dismissal of his charges, an Epstein offer of legal-network help and his confirmed Macklemore ban. The money and relationships are documented; the reviewed evidence does not establish that they purchased Dana Kraft's appointment. Kraft confirmed the Gillette ban; broader venue-owner coordination remains Macklemore's allegation, although the promoter and Ed Sheeran confirmed that multiple venues rejected the lineup.

   Trump's February 7 announcement of trustee removals, chairmanship and programming control

   Kennedy Center — a donor's wife, a captured board and the Kraft power network · Governance and closure litigation remains active