The board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted Wednesday to appoint President Donald Trump as its chairman in an unprecedented move days after Trump announced the Washington, D.C., arts center would be his latest target in his war against “woke culture.”

President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman in a meeting Wednesday afternoon. President Deborah Rutter told staff she was departing the institution.

The Kennedy Center's board voted unanimously to elect President Trump to be its new chair Wednesday afternoon, as the president reshapes the center's governing body and performances, moving away from what he views as "woke culture,