Earlier this week, President Trump was anointed chairman of the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees—but only after firing all of the Democratic appointees on the board and handpicking their replacements to join the remaining half of the board (all Republican appointees), bucking the decades-long norm of a bipartisan Kennedy Center board. After this new, entirely Republican-appointed slate of trustees voted him in, he posted, “It is a Great Honor to be Chairman of The Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees.” Then he fired the Kennedy Center’s president and installed someone loyal to him to run the Center.