President Donald J. Trump jabbed his political foes in remarks during a Monday dinner for the new Kennedy Center board, recalling that he was motivated to run again after the 2020 election was “rigged” against him.
Trump hosted the new board members in the State Dining Room at the White House and in his speech he talked about how he landed both the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Olympics for the United States, two events that he wouldn’t have been president for had he been re-elected to a second consecutive term.
LMAO!!! TRUMP: “I’ll shove it up their a*s!”
HE JUST WENT OFF!
“I said [during term 1], man, I won’t be president! I got the Olympics [2028] and the World Cup [2026], and I won’t be president, and they’re gonna forget that I got them, nobody’s gonna mention it, because you… pic.twitter.com/VowXDyirhB
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 20, 2025
“I got them both, and I said ‘man, I won’t be president,’ I got the Olympics and the World Cup and I won’t be president and they’re gonna forget that I got them, nobody’s gonna mention it, because you know a little bit, that’s the way that life is,” Trump said.
“And then they rigged the election, and then I said, ‘You know what I’ll do? I’ll run again and I’ll shove it up their a**,’” he added, drawing laughter and applause.
“And that’s what I did, and all of a sudden, and then I realized, I said, ‘You know what? I got the Olympics, I got the World Cup…’” the president continued.
“So if they would’ve left us alone, and wouldn’t have cheated on the election, and wouldn’t have rigged it, I would’ve been retired right now,” Trump concluded. “I would’ve been happily doing something else, and instead they have me for four more years, can you believe that?”
Trump also trashed the elite venue, which he took control of in February, ousting the board of trustees in a shakeup that drew howls of anger from Democrats and other leftists after he banned drag shows targeting children, which were hosted at the performing arts center, the crown jewel of the D.C. cultural elite.
He told the board members that at the time he took over the Kennedy Center, “I hadn’t been there.”
“It’s the last time I’ll take a job without looking at it,” Trump quipped.
He said that he wasn’t impressed by The REACH, a $250 expansion described as “a 21st-century cultural campus and arts incubator” which opened in 2019.
“I always thought they should have built a beautiful performing center, open air, facing out over the Potomac. They didn’t do that. They built these crazy rooms underneath. They built three tiny, little stages. Very expensive,” the president said. “Someday, maybe somebody will occupy one.”
“Instead of putting forward programming that tears our country down and tears our country apart, the Kennedy Center should be the nation’s premier venue for lifting up the best of our country and lifting up the American arts, theater, music, and culture,” Trump also stated during his speech.
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