'Yikes': Opera’s exit fuels criticism of Trump’s remake of the Kennedy Center

The Washington National Opera’s decision to leave the Kennedy Center after more than five decades set off a political and cultural firestorm – and critics wasted no time framing it as a direct rebuke of President Donald Trump’s second-term overhaul of the iconic institution.

The New York Times, which broke the story Friday, described the move as “perhaps the largest artistic rebuke yet” to Trump’s campaign to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in his own image. The opera company...