The congresswoman leading a legal battle against Donald Trump’s attempts to rename the Kennedy Center after himself said the president flew into a “tantrum" and repeatedly insulted her during a board meeting on the venue’s closure.
The Trump-controlled board voted to close the venue within hours after a federal judge blocked the institution from trying to add the president’s name to the building — again — after members proposed renaming it “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts renovated and restored by Donald J. Trump.”