President Donald Trump hosted the Kennedy Center’s leadership, reinforcing how much time he’s devoting to remaking one of the nation’s premier cultural centers in a larger effort to ideologically and socially overhaul the nation’s arts scene.

President Donald Trump kicked off a Monday dinner for the Kennedy Center board with a dig at their own organization. “What a group of good friends,” Trump said of Kennedy Center’s leadership as he took the podium at the White House event.

The center’s new president said prosecutors should look at its “criminal” debt and deferred maintenance, as the center announced dance and theater offerings that include some with nonunion casts.