The Washington Post / The Washington Post via Getty Im Following the publication of a report from The New York Times on Friday night revealing that the Washington National Opera will be leaving the Kennedy Center, members of the Trump administration immediately began scrambling to reframe the news as not only a positive, but their idea. Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi, who has been hard at work lashing out at artists for cancelling scheduled performances at the once-revered venue, posted a statement to X claiming that the center’s relationship with the opera group has “presented ongoing financial challenges for well over a decade” that “long predate the current leadership.” Read more at The Daily Beast.