Column | How Trump’s Kennedy Center takeover could change the arts
- Posted on February 11, 2025
- By Washington Post
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Column | How Trump’s Kennedy Center takeover could change the arts
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President Trump’s plans to police DEI language and control the Kennedy Center show an intent to use the government’s enormous coercive power over the cultural sector.