President Trump says he's "disappointed" with what he saw while touring the Kennedy Center for the first time after naming himself chairman of the performing arts institution as part of an unprecedented overhaul, vowing to fix up a place he says "represents a very important part" of both Washington and the country.

"It's in tremendous disrepair, as is a lot of the rest of our country, most of it because of bad management," Trump told reporters Monday after he toured the Kennedy Center and met for the first time as chairman of its board.

Trump, a former New York real estate developer, said he took issue with some of the structural components of the space, claiming the center "spent a fortune" on underground rooms "that nobody's going to use."

While it's unclear what areas Trump was referring to, the Kennedy Center underwent an award-winning $250 million expansion project in 2019.

"I'm very disappointed when I look around. The bottom line: It has tremendous potential. And we'll work with Congress... It's a very public facility, and we'll do what has to be done," Trump said.

"We're going to fix it up, but it's really emblematic of our country," he said.

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