Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors in September of 1971, it was a solemn celebration featuring a radical new work from Leonard Bernstein: his genre-jumping Mass commissioned by the widow of the nation’s first Catholic President.

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 intends to replace members of the institution’s board as he adopts a more aggressive approach toward the arts.