Renée Fleming, Ben Folds and Shonda Rhimes all left posts at the Kennedy Center after President Trump became chairman and its longtime leaders were fired.

"Not for me," Folds wrote in his resignation announcement. As President Donald Trump takes power at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, several creatives are stepping back. On Wednesday,

Musician Ben Folds, who’d been serving as an artistic adviser to the National Symphony Orchestra, and who announced his resignation on Instagram with a “Not for me.” See also TV hitmaker Shonda Rhimes,