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.

President Donald Trump proceeded with an overhaul of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, becoming chairman of the organization and firing its president, Deborah Rutter. The Kennedy Center said in a statement that its board of trustees,