President Donald Trump says he's firing members of the board of trustees for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and naming himself chairman.

The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.

The president announced Friday that he would remove multiple board members, including the Chairman, who do not share his vision for a "Golden Age in Arts and Culture."

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Colleen Shogan, the Archivist of the United States, and announced plans to shake up the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in his latest moves to upend institutions in Washington.

The president said he would remove several trustees from the Washington cultural institution’s board.

Biden filled a dozen vacancies on the board during his final weeks in office, including naming former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Trump's first-term appointees include his current attorney general, Pam Bondi.

President Donald Trump on Friday announced his plans to remove several board members of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, includ

The president had an at-times contentious relationship with Washington's iconic theater during his first term.