More Kennedy center drama it will close for renovations

[fappmaster]

More Kennedy center drama


" The Kennedy Center board voted to close the center Tuesday after a tense meeting in which President Donald Trump called in to berate a Democratic congresswoman who serves on the panel, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

“It was f**king crazy,” said one source familiar with the exchange between Trump and Rep. Joyce Beatty, whose lawsuit has prevented Trump’s name from being added to the building.

Another source said Trump screamed, blaming Beatty for getting the courts involved and leading to the downfall of the performing arts center. Beatty told Trump he had put the Kennedy Center into deep debt, the third source said.

The board’s vote and Trump’s call came moments after a federal judge stopped the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees’ latest plan to add Trump’s name to the memorial for President John F. Kennedy.

US District Judge Casey Cooper said a proposal to add an inscription thanking the president for renovating and restoring the institution’s edifice, along with a move to rename the center’s campus after him – “bucks a federal court order and a statute Congress enacted.”

“Simply put, Defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing,” Cooper wrote.

Before fully shutting down the Center, however, the board will need to secure a ruling reversing Cooper’s previous court order requiring that the institution stay open while Beatty’s lawsuit proceeds. The Justice Department is expected to file that request by Friday.

The Kennedy Center appealed Cooper’s ruling on Trump’s name Tuesday evening to the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals.
Trump says renovation won’t reopen without his name attached"

The rest of it is in the source link

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/15/politics ... enter-name

[TheButcher]

Not sure if this will ever get resolved or be tied up in the courts but this line s bound to cause more friction.


"Trump says renovation won’t reopen without his name attached"

[jag]

Just let him have his name there for the rest of his presidential term and not waste all this time and money on fighting it.

[tacnet]

Just let him have his name there for the rest of his presidential term and not waste all this time and money on fighting it.

Because when Trump took over the Kennedy Center, sacked all the board of directors and put his name on the building, ticket sales dropped by a massive 70% and donations also dropped by around 25%. Acts were cancelling all over the place and people simply refused to go. Revenues were down by around $100 million and the center is now on the brink of bankruptcy.

Congress has approved $250 million bail out for the center but Trump won't release that money unless his name is added back on the building

Its absolutely ridiculous. This is a memorial to a dead president and its as if Trump wants to put his name on Kennedy's gravestone

[shoopa]

Why are names so important to him?

[AlexO]

How many people care, it's not something I wake up and think, what will the kennedy center be called tomorrow. There are bigger fish to catch and fry.

[vroomlinks]

Fix the economy instead of talking of a name change, gas is going sky high, interest rates are jumping to new highs.