What did Donald Trump do today?

He took the day off to play armchair architect and art critic.

Most or possibly all of Trump's work day was taken up with a visit to the Kennedy Center, the performing arts organization that Trump decreed himself the chair of after firing much of its board. He presided over a two-hour meeting of his new hand-selected board and posed for pictures in the presidential box, a space he never visited during his first term.

After a tour of the grounds, Trump declared that the Center was "in tremendous disrepair" and criticized the presence of "underground rooms" he didn't see the point of. (Like any large-scale performance space, the Kennedy Center has rehearsal areas, practice rooms, classrooms, and administrative space.) 

This is what the Kennedy Center looks like, including some of its "underground rooms:"

That said, Trump does know something about buildings in disrepair. During his first term, a man died in a fire at Trump Tower because the building lacked a sprinkler system and Trump had fought all attempts by the city to require him to install one. He deliberately allowed other rental properties he owned to fall into disrepair in an attempt to dislodge rent-stabilized tenants, allowing rats to proliferate and heating systems to fail in the middle of winter.

Artists have been leaving the Center in droves, dropping out of planned appearances in protests. Audiences aren't happy either: ticket sales have plummeted, donations have dried up, and Vice-President JD Vance was loudly booed when he showed up for a National Symphony Orchestra concert earlier this week.

Trump also signaled that he'd like to host the annual Kennedy Center Honors, and that he hoped to present an award to George Herman Ruth—better known by his nickname Babe, the New York Yankees slugger who died in 1948.

Why does this matter?

• The President of the United States has better things to do with his time.

• Believing you're an expert in everything is not a sign of good mental health.

• There's creative thinking, and then there's giving an arts award to a baseball player who retired in 1935.