Trump closes down Kennedy Center to turn it into a gaudy monstrosity
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Since for obvious reasons most of the scheduled artists have decided they ain’t gonna play the Beltway equivalent of Sun City, Trump is responding the only way he knows how, with narcissistic spite:
President Trump said the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will close for two years for renovations, a move he said would turn the venerated national cultural institution into a “new and spectacular Entertainment Complex.”
Trump said the Kennedy Center will close on July 4 of this year, a date that coincides with the country’s 250th birthday, and said that the financing for the renovation is “completed, and fully in place.” The move comes as the center has struggled to fill seats, and some artists have canceled performances.
“I have determined that The Trump Kennedy Center, if temporarily closed for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding, can be, without question, the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind, anywhere in the World,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday evening.
The president said he debated keeping the center open during construction, but argued that a complete closure would “produce a much faster and higher quality result.”
The White House and Kennedy Center officials didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment about the scope of the renovation and who was funding it.
I’m sure that there’s a faction of Trump supporters very excited by the possibility that Washington D.C. might be getting its first TopGolf.
This also seems like an important, if quaint, question:
Congress passed legislation in 1958 establishing a national cultural center in Washington, laying the groundwork for what would eventually become the Kennedy Center. It wasn’t immediately clear what role Congress would have in overseeing Trump’s proposed renovation.
Musicians and other artists have sought to distance themselves from the center since Trump began exerting more control over it. Composer Philip Glass last month withdrew his Symphony No. 15, titled “Lincoln,” from its world premiere at the Kennedy Center.
“Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony,” Glass wrote on social media.
The idea that Congress is responsible for appropriations is the kind of nutty thing only an anti-American commie like Abraham Lincoln could believe.