Caroline Kennedy is expected to meet with President Trump regarding his dramatic overhaul of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, DailyMail.com has learned.
Joe Biden‘s Ambassador to Australia has been compelled to step in and address the chaos at the landmark cultural institution after the president fired its board members and appointed himself as chairman this week.
Kennedy, 67, who is Emeritus Trustee at the D.C.-based center, named in honor of her father John F. Kennedy, is set to meet with Trump along with her daughter, Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, according to insiders.
Sources with knowledge of the situation say Rose, 36, and her friends have bemoaned the Trump administration’s recent policies targeting trans athletes and intends to support her mother in addressing the drama at the institution that bears their family’s namesake.
‘Rose told friends that she and her mother are set to have a private meeting with Trump over the Kennedy Center after he ousted the board members and vowed to end its drag show events,’ a source told DailyMail.com.
Rose, who lives with her wife in Ojai, California, is the older daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, and one of JFK’s three grandchildren, but has been known to avoid the spotlight and the political chaos that often surrounds her famous family.
It’s unclear in what capacity she will accompany her mother to the meeting with the president, however, it is likely she has a vested interest in the center’s legacy as a filmmaker and artist.
Trump announced plans to fire trustees and the chairman from the Kennedy Center and put himself in charge last week, in a bid to take over programming and to specifically put an end to drag shows ‘targeting children.’
The president proceeded with an overhaul of the center on Wednesday after criticizing its former leadership, becoming chairman of the organization, and firing its president, Deborah Rutter.
The Kennedy Center said in a statement that its board of trustees, newly filled with appointees by Trump, had elected him chair and named Richard Grenell as interim president.
In a statement, Trump wrote: ‘It is a great honor to be Chairman of The Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees. We will make The Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!’
Trump replaces billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein as head of the Kennedy Center, one of the leading arts organizations in the country that has enjoyed bipartisan support for years.
