In leaked audio obtained by CNN, Donald Trump told the new Kennedy Center board that 'we made the presidency hot' and will make the cultural institution 'hot' too. The call came less than a week after

President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman and replaced the Kennedy Center’s president Deborah Rutter with Trump ally Richard Grenell.

The newly formed board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts elected President Donald Trump as its chairman after he removed the past members.