Trump plans to become chair of the Kennedy Center. Here are 3 things to know [Video]

President Trump plans to fire several Board members at Washington D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. And to the surprise of many in the arts world, on Friday, he said he would name himself chairman. Here’s why any of that matters.

1. He wants to chair a board. Is that important?

Admittedly, this seems like small potatoes compared with the President’s proposed annexing of Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada and Gaza, but in the years since the Kennedy Center was first proposed in the late 1950s, it has had an outsized impact on how the American public views culture. Besides being home to the National Symphony and the Washington Opera, not to mention Broadway touring companies, dance troupes, jazz, blues, and pop concerts, the Center is also a national monument — a white marble temple situated on the banks of the Potomac in the nation’s capital. That gives it …