Musician Ben Folds, who’d been serving as an artistic adviser to the National Symphony Orchestra, and who announced his resignation on Instagram with a “Not for me.” See also TV hitmaker Shonda Rhimes,

Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter, brought on by Rubenstein in 2014, resigned soon after the board shake-up. Trump replaced her, on an interim basis, with diplomat Richard Grenell, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Germany during the president's first term.

Fears have risen that President Donald Trump’s fresh team at the Kennedy Center will usher the cultural hub into a dark financial hole, even as the White House‘s allies have said the institution’s former leaders already pulled it into a quagmire of fiscal ruin.