Trump has purged the artists who were on the board of the Kennedy Center and replaced them with his cronies. The only culture that will come out of there for the next four years will be mold and fungus.

The Great Kennedy Center Purge of 2025. This is from a Substack account called Closer to the Edge.

For years, Trump steered clear of the Kennedy Center like a vampire avoiding a crucifix. The annual Kennedy Center Honors, the Mark Twain Prize—those events were not his scene. Too much culture, too many people who could read without moving their lips. He was a man who thought steak should be well-done and that "Citizen Kane" was about having a really big house. High art and Trump mixed about as well as bath salts and a Florida Wal-Mart.

But now? Now he owns the place.

In a move so brazen it would make a banana republic dictator blush, Trump has appointed himself chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. That’s right—America’s supposed “cultural beacon” is now officially a stage for Trump’s vanity projects, a golden toilet for the arts. If there was ever a symbol for America’s rapid descent into an intellectually malnourished hellscape, this is it.

Read the rest at the link.