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Trump to attend Kennedy Center for board meeting, as its new chair

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    • 88:88
      We’re going to get some very good shows. I guess we have Les Mis coming.”
      Guardian
      Trump reportedly mooted posthumous honors for two musical heroes, Elvis Presley and Luciano Pavarotti, and said
    • 88:88
      Donald Trump
      In the past … radical left lunatics … have been chosen. I didn’t like it.”
      Guardian
      The paper quoted Trump as saying
    • 88:88
      It’s supposed to be covered by something, whether it’s marble or whatever, granite”
      Guardian
      The former New York real estate mogul also reportedly criticized exterior columns
    • 88:88
      I know the person who was in charge of it and he’s a good man. I never realized this was in such bad shape.”
      Guardian
      Trump said
    • 88:88
      You’ve ruined this place,
      Guardian
      Greeted by shouts of ... the vice-president responded with a wave
    • 88:88
      We’re here to have our first board meeting.”
      Guardian
      Speaking to reporters, Trump said
    • 88:88
      If you announced that, every network will start bidding on it, going crazy, for whatever reason, that’s the way it is,
      Guardian
      Trump said
    • 88:88
      The Kennedy Center is in tremendous disrepair,
      Guardian
      Trump said
    • 88:88
      I thought it was very important to make this good,
      Guardian
      Trump said
    • 88:88
      We’re going to make a lot of changes, including the seats, the décor, pretty much everything needs a lot of work.”
      CNN
      Previewing renovations ahead, Trump said
    • 88:88
      Do you want a little picture like this?”
      CNN
      The president, lit by spotlight, posed for photographers in his press pool below, joking
    • 88:88
      I’ll tell you what, Ric, why don’t you stand back?”
      CNN
      At one point on the balcony, Trump turning to Kennedy Center trustees Grenell and Sergio Gor, who joined him in the box, and said
    • 88:88
      It needs a lot of work,
      CNN
      Trump said on the presidential balcony after the board meeting
    • 88:88
      We’re going to make our capitol great again, just like we’re going to make our country great again.”
      CNN
      Trump on Monday called the Kennedy Center a “very big part of the fabric of Washington, DC,” adding
    • 88:88
      Donald Trump
      It’s in tremendous disrepair, as is a lot of the rest of our country, most of it because of bad management,
      CNN
      said Trump, who was elected chair last month by a newly constituted board, including several new Trump appointees who replaced trustees appointed by Democratic presidents
    • 88:88
      You look at the columns outside, you look at they’re supposed to be covered by something, whether it’s marble, or whatever, granite. They were never covered. They were painted. But bring it into more modern times, a lot of money has been given to it, and the money has not been properly spent,
      CNN
      Trump told reporters
    • 88:88
      Lee Greenwood wanted to sing a little song today, and because of the cost of the union structure, for him to sing a song just for the board, just a board meeting, it was going to cost $30,000. That doesn’t sound too good. They wanted $30,000 to move a piano. So, you can’t have that,
      CNN
      Trump said
    • 88:88
      I don't want to, but I want this thing to be successful,
      Daily Mail
      he told the board, according to a recording obtained by the Washington Post
    • 88:88
      We'll go slightly more conservative, if you don't mind, with some of the people,
      Daily Mail
      Trump said
    • 88:88
      That's a big announcement,
      International Business Times
      Trump said next to a bust of his Democratic predecessor