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Beatty reveals heated discussion with Trump over Kennedy Center
Headline from KRQE Albuquerque
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), an ex-officio Kennedy Center board member, said Tuesday she got into a heated discussion with President Donald Trump over the center.
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President Trump called into the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees meeting Tuesday to yell at trustee and Democratic Representative Joyce Beatty. The call came in before the board voted to close the center indefinitely, ostensibly for repairs, and just after a federal judge blocked Trump from puttin…
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), an ex-officio Kennedy Center board member, said Tuesday she got into a heated discussion with President Donald Trump over the center.
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) said President Donald Trump threw a “tantrum” during a board meeting about the next steps for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and claimed the venue is still open despite the president saying otherwise.
“It was the most unprofessional thing that I've ever witnessed," the congresswoman said on MS NOW of the contentious virtual board meeting that she and Trump attended.
Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, said the president attacked her and called her “incompetent’ after a court blocked the inscription of his name on the Kennedy Center’s facade.
