Fox News Hosts Appointed to Kennedy Center Board

President Donald Trump announced on Friday night that he had added Fox News hosts Maria Bartiromo and Laura Ingraham to the board of trustees at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The announcement came weeks after Trump fired much of the venue’s board and appointed himself chair.

In a post from his Truth Social account, Trump said Bartiromo and Ingraham would be the last people appointed to the center’s board of trustees.

“I am thrilled to announce that Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo will be joining our Kennedy Center Board – This completes our selection,” Trump wrote. “We look forward to restoring the Center to Greatness, and ushering in America’s Golden Age. Together, we will Make the Arts Great Again!”

Other members appointed since Trump took over the Kennedy Center include Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s wife, Allison Lutnick and Vice President JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance.

Bartiromo, Ingraham, Lutnick, and Vance join a board of trustees that includes Attorney General Pam Bondi and Trump allies Elaine Chao, Dan Scavino, and Susie Wiles.

Longtime Trump ally Richard Grenell currently serves as the president of the Kennedy Center.

Bartiromo and Ingraham join the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees a day after Jeffrey Seller, the producer of the musical Hamilton, announced the show would not return with Trump at the helm.

Seller said the Kennedy Center was launched “with a sincere bipartisan spirit” and added:

However, in recent weeks we have sadly seen decades of Kennedy Center neutrality be destroyed. The recent purge by the Trump Administration of both professional staff and performing arts events at or originally produced by the Kennedy Center flies in the face of everything this national cultural center represents. This spirit of nonpartisanship ended on February 7, 2025, with the firing of Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter, the Chairman of the Board David Rubenstein, and numerous other Kennedy Center board members, as well as the cancellation of important programming.

These actions bring a new spirit of partisanship to the national treasure that is the Kennedy Center. Given these recent actions, our show simply cannot, in good conscience, participate and be a part of this new culture that is being imposed on the Kennedy Center. Therefore, we have cancelled the third engagement of Hamilton at the Kennedy Center, originally scheduled for March 3-April 26, 2026.