The center has since canceled performances by the touring children’s musical “Finn” and a planned concert featuring the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. Although Trump has said that the Kennedy Center overhaul is part of his overall campaign against “woke” culture,

For the arts institution, which receives only a small portion of its budget from federal funding, the perennial challenge is to raise additional revenue through ticket sales and private donations.

President Donald Trump fired most of the center's board of trustees earlier this month and named himself chairman.