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,

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.”

The president solidified his grip on the performing arts complex as the center’s longtime president, Deborah F. Rutter, was fired.