Lynda Lomangino – Kennedy Center Trustee, Wife of Mar-a-Lago Donor Anthony Lomangino
Category: Kennedy Center Trustee
Appointed: Kennedy Center Board of Trustees, February 11, 2025 (term expiring September 1, 2030, replacing Amy Blanchard Ricchetti)
Priority: P3 (Appointed to federal cultural institution as reward for husband’s Trump support; participated in illegal renaming vote)
Basis for Inclusion
Subject classification: Presidential Appointee to federally chartered institution (non-speech anchor: board membership and renaming vote)
Basis: Lynda Lomangino was appointed to the Kennedy Center board by Trump in February 2025. Her husband, Anthony Lomangino, is a Mar-a-Lago member, a major Trump financial supporter, and co-founder of the super PAC Right for America which was explicitly dedicated to returning Trump to the White House. She participated in the December 2025 vote to rename the Kennedy Center — declared null, void, and without legal effect by a federal court.
Background
Lynda Lomangino is the wife of Anthony Lomangino, a Palm Beach-area businessman described by Crain’s and TheaterMania as the “trash kingpin” of Palm Beach. The Lomangino family built its fortune in waste management, beginning in Queens and expanding to Florida.
Anthony Lomangino is a member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and a longtime financial supporter of Trump and Trump-aligned causes. Notably:
- He donated to the legal defense of Trump insiders caught up in the Russia investigation
- In 2024, he co-founded the super PAC Right for America with the explicit goal of returning Trump to the White House — a goal that succeeded
- TheaterMania noted: “for his loyalty, Lomangino’s wife will now sit on the board of the Kennedy Center”
Documented Actions
1. Kennedy Center Appointment
Lynda Lomangino was named to the Kennedy Center board on February 11, 2025 — the day before the board elected Trump chair and fired Deborah Rutter. Her appointment is one of the most straightforwardly transactional in the batch: a direct reward for her husband’s decade of Trump financial support and his personal co-founding of a super PAC that returned Trump to power.
2. Illegal Renaming Vote (December 2025)
As a board member, Lynda Lomangino was part of the board that voted to rename the Kennedy Center on December 18, 2025. A federal court declared this vote null, void, and without legal effect on May 30, 2026.
Cross-References
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Sources
- White House Press Release, “President Trump Announces Appointments to the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,” February 11, 2025.
- TheaterMania, “Story of the Week: Trump Appointed 14 New Kennedy Center Trustees. Then They Elected Him Chair,” February 2025.
- U.S. District Court, D.D.C., Beatty v. Kennedy Center, May 30, 2026.
Last Updated: June 2, 2026