A spokesperson for the Kennedy Center did not respond to a request for comment. The White House press office sent a link to Trump’s social-media post in response to a request for comment.

President Donald Trump has fired several members of the board of trustees for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and make himself the center's chairman.

The Kennedy Center said some board members had received termination notices from the Trump administration but the center itself had gotten no official communication from the White House.

Trump said he would fire several Kennedy Center board members, including Chairman David M. Rubenstein, and make himself chair.

The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., released a statement in response to President Donald Trump‘s announcement Friday that he plans to fire board members and name himself chair of the iconic institution.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Colleen Shogan, the Archivist of the United States, and announced plans to shake up the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in his latest moves to upend institutions in Washington.

President Trump announced plans Friday to fire board members for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and install himself as its chairman. "At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.

The president intends to replace members of the institution’s board as he adopts a more aggressive approach toward the arts.

The president had an at-times contentious relationship with Washington's iconic theater during his first term.

Trump did not attend prominent events during his administration. The move comes as his directives have begun to force changes at Washington’s cultural institutions.