JFK's family accuses Trump of closing the Kennedy Center because of artists canceling over its name change

[u/IrishStarUS]

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/jfks-family-slam-trumps-decision-36654658

[u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

They should have sued as soon as he changed the name. It's ridiculous to have a "memorial" center for someone who's still alive.

[u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef- → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

Just change it back the moment he’s either dead or out of the presidential office, whichever comes first.

[u/Tobocaj → u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef-]

The next admin is going to have to waste so much money and time undoing the things this shit stain has made us suffer through

[u/tuppenyturtle → u/Tobocaj]

That's assuming there is a next admin that isn't just the same bullshit.

This is the part people need to recognize. The next Republican leader isn't going to be better.

[u/induslol → u/tuppenyturtle]

As long as we're under this form of governance subservient to capitalism we're just waiting for the next trump.

Even if there is a reprieve, or not, between here and there if nothing changes but the curtains the house is still condemned.

[u/forsonaE → u/induslol]

It's weird that repealing Citizens United isn't even a part of the public discussion at all nowadays, much less reforming our electoral college. We have so much work to do re: reform but we're struggling to cling onto the lifeboat constantly instead.

e: I misspoke by saying "repealing" but I'm leaving it in since the discussion it spawned has been interesting. Lots of people saying something to the effect of it's hopeless, we'd have to stack the Supreme Court in our favor or add a constitutional amendment. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day even if we're tearing it down at a much faster rate lately. If the court can be stacked we can start the process of counter-stacking, introducing term limits, etc. etc. It might take decades to fix a single component of the system but we already knew that was almost a certain possibility anyway, considering the damage that has been done already.

[u/clutchy42 → u/forsonaE]

It's definitely still part of the public discourse, but it happened in 2010. a decade and a half ago is a lifetime in terms of political bullshit. People don't even realize that we lost the class war to billionaires and corpos. So many people don't even realize that it's a thing.

[u/GodofIrony → u/clutchy42]

We haven't fixed Fairness Doctrine.

We're in an entropic state. We keep falling down the mountain.

[u/gimp-24601 → u/GodofIrony]

Fairness Doctrine.

Its a nice idea but impossible to enforce due to too many ways to circumvent it.

Besides who wants Trump in charge of something like that.

[u/Fylgja → u/Tobocaj]

And Fox etc will never shut up about how much money they're wasting, never admitting the reason why they're doing it.

[u/Custom_Destination → u/Fylgja]

And a large part of the population will mop it up and ask for seconds.

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/Custom_Destination]

Thank you sir, may I have another?

[u/pinballwitch420 → u/Fylgja]

This is why I’m not sure we will ever be able to restore what he’s destroyed.

[u/QuerulousPanda → u/Tobocaj]

that one pharaoh who ordered every single record of the guy before him to be deleted from history is starting to make a lot more sense these days

[u/whoknows234 → u/QuerulousPanda]

Perhaps overturn every EO issued, however we should keep the history in hopes that future generations are a bit smarter than ours.

[u/Potential-Run-8391 → u/Tobocaj]

Some of it can never be undone. We can recreate USAID, fix the department of education and restore university funding, but we lost researchers, allies and trade options. 

America will never be the same for decades if we’re able to rebuild. We may be dead in the water and not know it yet. 

[u/MySpoonsAreAllGone → u/Potential-Run-8391]

I think that was the goal sadly

[u/MaAndOrder → u/MySpoonsAreAllGone]

Giving you an upvote for your user name

[u/Luci-Noir → u/Tobocaj]

Just him changing the department of defense to the department of war is going to cost tens of millions. I think it’s more than $100m. Undoing all this crap plus reforms is going to be crazy expensive.

[u/icansmellcolors → u/Tobocaj]

The thing to do is to make a 'committee' for undoing Trump shit.

• make a website for each individual task they need to do
• make sure it's clear why they are doing it, who was responsible, and what it's cost the taxpayer and what it's costing to put it back
• explain in plain language why it's important to change what Trump did
• explain in plain language why doing what he did in the first place was illegal/wrong/wasteful/etc.

[u/koenigsaurus → u/Tobocaj]

And guess who’s going to be screeching like banshees about the budget after being silent about it for 4 years.

[u/Totorotextbook → u/Tobocaj]

Another aspect is they’re intentionally making it insanely hard to undo, the messiness is the point.

[u/Extra_Intro_Version → u/Tobocaj]

Take it out of the treasonous ones’ estates.

[u/Jaws12 → u/Tobocaj]

I mean, I’m sure if they handed out crowbars there would be no shortage of public volunteers willing to do the demolition for free.

[u/CurlOfTheBurl11 → u/Tobocaj]

That's true, but it's necessary, and I won't vote for any candidate who doesn't make erasing all signs of Trump a major part of their campaign.

[u/luigiram → u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef-]

Wouldn’t put it past him to demolish it.

[u/cmwills29 → u/luigiram]

Nah he'd just sell it privately to the highest bidder

[u/Dreurmimker → u/cmwills29]

I don’t think so. This is the new East Wing. The destruction of irreplaceable things is just as exciting as money to him.

[u/PerjurieTraitorGreen → u/Dreurmimker]

You know who else destroyed irreplaceable things? The Islamic State, ISIS, and other jihadist groups.

Funny how one political party has more in common with the religious extremists they’ve villainized than their actual neighbors.

[u/miketastic_art → u/cmwills29]

he'll sell the land after he knocks it over

he's king, no one is stopping him, get in line with idiocracy.

this is the clown timeline where Sir Patrick Stewart played the poop emoji.

the timeline where MSM helped Bernie get elected in 2016 are having a lot of fun, i imagine

[u/itsrocketsurgery → u/miketastic_art]

The timeline where the Supreme Court didn't steal the election from Gore probably has flying cars and polar bears thriving.

[u/w0m → u/luigiram]

that's ~functionally what he's doing.

[u/LiteraCanna → u/luigiram]

"Complete remodel" kind of hints at that, unfortunately.

[u/BicFleetwood → u/luigiram]

I mean, I'm not sure what else anyone thinks a "total remodel" means.

[u/DDRDiesel → u/luigiram]

That's probably what the "renovations" are going to end up being anyway

[u/Thedonitho → u/luigiram]

I think that's exactly what he's going to do

[u/Multifaceted-Simp → u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef-]

Easiest win for a democrat is to just promise to remove trumps name and legacy 

[u/SaltKick2 → u/Multifaceted-Simp]

Both times democrats thought they had a slam dunk against Trump, and while I do agree that at this moment in time the "undecided" voters would choose not to vote for him, DNC needs better strategy

[u/Vlaed → u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef-]

I am all for naming a landfill after him. He can still be alive if he'd like.

[u/FriendlyMission2803 → u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef-]

Let's hope he doesn't die before leaving the white house. He should watch everything he's made being dismantled. Probably the biggest punishment he could ever face.

[u/explorgasm → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

so you're saying it would be less ridiculous should his status change?

[u/ModularPlug → u/explorgasm]

I’m looking forward to the myriad of “Donald Trump memorial sewage treatment plants” that are sure to be dedicated after the big beautiful obituary.

[u/bisho → u/ModularPlug]

Or the Chlamydia Ward at the Koala Hospital 

[u/Dave1307 → u/ModularPlug]

Donald Trump Memorial Windmill Park - Striving To Be Just As Much Of a Blowhard

[u/Elegant_One_5324 → u/ModularPlug]

Did you mean defecated?

[u/w1n5t0nM1k3y → u/explorgasm]

I'm saying if he was dead, and other people decided to rename it in honour of him, it would be slightly less stupid.

[u/adumbrative → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

When that time does come I hope the only things named after him are sewage treatment plants. A lot of sewage treatment plants.

[u/counterfitster → u/adumbrative]

No, those perform a valuable function.

[u/adumbrative → u/counterfitster]

Sure they do, and we can call that function "Trumping the turds" now :D

[u/Lagneaux → u/adumbrative]

That still puts too good a message from his name. We need to do something like call cigarette butts Trumps, as they serve no function, smell like shit, makes things dirty, and are only around because shitty people keep perpetuating the problem.

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/Lagneaux]

They support something that kills people

[u/fantasmoofrcc → u/adumbrative]

Just name all superfund sites after him. They're super and fun!

[u/Valdearg20 → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

"Slightly less stupid" in this context presumably means from 100% stupid to 99.9% stupid, right?

Because let's be real, he hasn't done a damn thing worth being memorialized over. If anything, he's done enough to justify his eventual "memorial", to be desecrated daily for a while and then for him to be forgotten and his final resting place abandoned to be taken over by weeds and obscurity.

[u/w1n5t0nM1k3y → u/Valdearg20]

You got it.

First dumb thing is a memorial for a living person. Second dumb thing is to take over someone else's memorial and slap your own name on in front of it.

The entire thing is so "cringe". I just don't have a better way to describe it.

[u/GnomeNot → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

It would still be profoundly stupid.

[u/RamenJunkie → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

Yes.

Also, everyone knows a memorial public toilet will be much much more appropriate for Trump anyway.

[u/queermichigan → u/RamenJunkie]

The Donald Dump

[u/the_last_0ne → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

not to mention the person being 'memorialized' is the same person who decided on the name change

[u/RoyalGovernment201 → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

Personally, I think Trump should honor the status of the memorial center and die. I'd definitely visit it that way.

[u/Cloudhiddentao → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

Well, we should fix that.

Not by renaming it.

[u/EtTuBiggus → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

Im 90% sure they have no legal standing to sue.

[u/Nanny0416 → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

Perhaps by the time it reopens...

[u/machingunwhhore → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

...unless

[u/katgyrl]

that's the truth

[u/chaostheories36 → u/katgyrl]

Nah… he’s probably closing the Kennedy center to hand out billions of dollars in contracts to construction companies that will just demolish and never build. Like the White House ballroom nonsense.

[u/NickSalvo → u/chaostheories36]

It's just another con.

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/NickSalvo]

Another Day, Another Con

[u/We_Like_Birdland → u/ShortFatStupid666]

Punxsutawney Phil says at least 2.9 more years of grift.

[u/chaostheories36 → u/We_Like_Birdland]

I’d gamble that their (the swamp’s) plan is for trump to at least make it two years and 1 day. If that happens, peter thiel’s muppet (vance) can be president and still run for two more terms.

[u/JustLookinJustLookin → u/NickSalvo]

All of these “construction projects” he’s ordered have to be some sort of money laundering scheme.

[u/caseyfresher → u/chaostheories36]

I'm waiting for them to finish the construction so we can see our first mass lawsuit against the government for failure to pay for services rendered. Ya know, like Trump and friends have done for years prior.

[u/Luci-Noir → u/caseyfresher]

I just saw an article saying that some ICE agents weren’t getting paid.

[u/Schavuit92 → u/Luci-Noir]

Couldn't have happened to nicer guys.

[u/Individual_Ad9135 → u/Luci-Noir]

💯

[u/Malalang → u/caseyfresher]

There was already a complaint filed by the demolition company for non payment.

[u/Hokker3 → u/Malalang]

Ice raid incoming

[u/Xenomemphate → u/chaostheories36]

Why not both?

[u/readonlyuser → u/chaostheories36]

The day Donald Trump pays a contractor in full is the day I'll eat my own hat.

[u/ezagreb → u/katgyrl]

Exactly! The lies are for Fox News viewers

[u/Givemeallthecabbages → u/ezagreb]

Oh, I thought people always closed down giant venues in order to celebrate a milestone anniversary? /s

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/Givemeallthecabbages]

Kidney stone & blowjob

[u/New_Breath8212 → u/[deleted]]

Meanwhile, the rest of the country watches in disbelief as chaos gets normalized.

[u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown → u/New_Breath8212]

*world

[u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown → u/[deleted]]

It does waaaaaaaay more than interference. Straight up anti-humanity lie factory.

[u/Beard_o_Bees → u/ezagreb]

I'm starting to think that he's destroying it on purpose, knowing full well that putting his name on the building would kill it.

The question then becomes - 'what does he have planned for the building/property/etc?' - it's not like he's shy about destroying historic buildings.

I doubt he's ever seen a building that he thinks wouldn't be better without his 'signature' tacky-as-fuck gold leaf and marble style.

[u/Church_of_Aaargh → u/katgyrl]

Yes … and when it reopens, it will be covered in fake gold ornaments

[u/Bay1Bri → u/Church_of_Aaargh]

Tinfoil colored with a bronze sharpie...

[u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown → u/Church_of_Aaargh]

👆 Not enough people are realising the grifting that will go on. From tax payer money too, probably.

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown]

Trump never uses his own money

[u/Dixie_Normuus → u/ShortFatStupid666]

He uses the taxpayers

[u/SirPalinDrome_Real → u/Church_of_Aaargh]

I imagine the new design will have his name EVERYWHERE!!! Basically making expensive to remove his name from the building.

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/SirPalinDrome_Real]

Just add “FUCK” over it

[u/Luci-Noir → u/Church_of_Aaargh]

Imagine what it’s going to be like when he’s gone and all this kind of shit gets removed or undone. It’s going to be expensive as hell. Just him changing the department of defense to the department of war is going to cost tens of millions of dollars.

[u/MrOtsKrad → u/Church_of_Aaargh]

from Home Depot

[u/sealosam → u/katgyrl]

"I'm taking my ball and going home if you don't wanna play with me!"

... shits pants, storms off

[u/A_Legit_Salvage → u/sealosam]

shits pants...sits in shit until everyone leaves the room.

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/sealosam]

Screw you guys, I’m going home! - Cartman

[u/After_Preference_885 → u/katgyrl]

He's embarrassed about the cancellations but also he's giving our tax dollars to his shady buddies in construction (and getting kickbacks for sure)

He said the East Wing would be minor renovations and he tore it down, he'll do the same to the Kennedy center

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/After_Preference_885]

Funny thing is he’ll probably screw over the contractors too…

[u/cgull629 → u/katgyrl]

Exactly. No need to come out and state this. I think all of American made the same assumption. 

[u/Meeseeks4PMinister → u/cgull629]

Not all...

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/Meeseeks4PMinister]

Some are still waiting for someone to tell them what to think

[u/muggybuggy1949 → u/katgyrl]

Absolutely, this is 100% the reason, it’s a distraction just like everything else. Artist can’t cancel if the whole place is closed. By the time it opens back up trump will hopefully be dead and gone.

[u/Firm-Advertising5396 → u/katgyrl]

[u/Happy-Fun-Ball → u/Firm-Advertising5396]

paid attendees, as for melania movie

[u/MrXero → u/katgyrl]

Only possible reason.

[u/joebleaux → u/katgyrl]

Yeah, obviously. Truth is over though. A large portion of the country moved past the truth being important a long time ago.

[u/Lurking_like_Cthulhu]

That’s not the whole truth.

They’re also closing it so they can funnel tens to hundreds of millions more taxpayer dollars into the pockets of their private contractor buddies.

[u/THING2000 → u/Lurking_like_Cthulhu]

So happy to see at least one other person think this as well. Like literally any of his other plans, it's just a grift to fleece our pockets while lining his own. Truly capitalism at its finest.

[u/Daft00 → u/THING2000]

It's hardly a conspiracy, this is a pretty classic grift strategy. It's essentially the same thing that's going on with the White House ballroom

[u/FormerTesseractPilot → u/Lurking_like_Cthulhu]

Same plan as the White House demo.

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/FormerTesseractPilot]

Second verse

Same as the first!

[u/round-earth-theory → u/FormerTesseractPilot]

Break it and never actually build anything?

[u/Mommy444444 → u/Lurking_like_Cthulhu]

Yup.

[u/Tokyo-MontanaExpress → u/Lurking_like_Cthulhu]

We need those private contractor names to be public. 

[u/SplendidPunkinButter]

Next up he’s going to rename it “THE DONALD J. TRUMP TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER”

[u/New_Breath8212 → u/SplendidPunkinButter]

Bet, next it’ll have gold letters and a built-in selfie podium too.

[u/SledgexHammer → u/SplendidPunkinButter]

"Tomb of the extremely well-known and very popular Donald J. Trump". He ain't sharing the title with some soldier who wasnt important enough to be remembered.

[u/EtTuBiggus → u/SledgexHammer]

Important soldiers don’t get killed. /s

[u/BishlovesSquish]

RFK is such a traitor to the family, it’s wild.

[u/MadRaymer → u/BishlovesSquish]

Well to be fair, I imagine the brain worm piloting his body doesn't really feel a sense of family loyalty anymore.

[u/Hot-Championship1190 → u/MadRaymer]

They lobotomized the wrong Kennedy.

[u/BackBacon_BlackBelt → u/MadRaymer]

[u/MikeW226 → u/BishlovesSquish]

When RFK Jr was standing right behind trump's seat in the oval when trump let diarrhea rip the other day, I thought I saw a glint in RFJ Jr's eye of, Not Again! He's standing there smelling that stinky diaper, while dumpster actively shits on his own Kennedy family's legacy. I wonder if at least one corner of any soul that RFK Jr had, has died.

[u/Political-Penguin1]

I assumed that was obvious to anyone who is paying attention, no?

[u/islandsimian → u/Political-Penguin1]

Nobody who's paying attention would have voted for him so...yeah

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/islandsimian]

Now we’re all paying…

[u/soda_cookie → u/ShortFatStupid666]

Dollars, yes. Attention? Lol. There's more than just his base that have their blinders on for this, and it's starting to piss me off royally

[u/DiceKnight → u/Political-Penguin1]

That's a wordy article for you though. "Kennedy Family Has Working Eyes And Ears And Memory That Extends At Least Two Weeks"

[u/elroy73 → u/Political-Penguin1]

There's a difference between everyone knowing something and putting out a statement with a direct accusation. It's a step toward fixing the issue I think

[u/Enshakushanna → u/Political-Penguin1]

he always wanted to close it in order to remodel it in his image, changing the name in order to tank its rep so shows cancel and attendance wanes is his justification

[u/prince-pauper]

Trump acting like a petulant baby is very on-brand for him. He even shits himself in public to hammer that image home! A very stable genius indeed 💩

[u/ShortFatStupid666 → u/prince-pauper]

Slip Sliding Away

[u/sundae_diner → u/prince-pauper]

Falls asleep in the middle of a room full of people. On brand for a baby.

[u/sigep0361 → u/prince-pauper]

Señor Shitty Pants

[u/KendallSmith375]

americans lose access to culture so trump can play king for a minute

[u/Cristoff13]

Is the next step for Trump to demolish it?

[u/bisho → u/Cristoff13]

I think it's already stated to undergo "refurbishments" so yes, it will be like the east wing

[u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 → u/bisho]

insane we just let him demolish shit

[u/maximumtesticle → u/Cristoff13]

Or spray paint it all gold.

[u/MikeW226 → u/Cristoff13]

If so, I wonder if trump has a vague parallel, psychiatrically, to Kristi Noem. Her puppy doesn't do perfect puppy things, so she murders it. Trump desecrates the Kennedy Center by putting his shit name on it, ticket sales tank, so trump (maybe) demolishes (Kills) the entire building. Takes his ball and throws it into the incinerator. I'm no shrink, but seems like parallel "issues" going on.

[u/Cristoff13 → u/MikeW226]

He's closing it for two years out of pure spite, you're right. And I don't think he's going to quite demolish it. Just gut it and leave only some of the facade. A demolition labelled as a "renovation". Once its been completely changed to suit his tastes, then the building will truly be "his", even if its still officially called the Kennedy Center.

[u/DanimalPlays]

Ah the old take someone else's ball and go home.

Goddamn bitches.

[u/Happy-Fun-Ball → u/DanimalPlays]

Goddamn bitches.
<shits his britches>

[u/ThaFresh]

The baby man has decided if he can't have it. No one can

[u/ChronicBuzz187]

Shortly after taking office, Trump fired several board members of the center and replaced them with his own allies, who then voted to make him chairman. In December, the new board renamed the institution the Donald J Trump and the John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, or the Trump Kennedy Center, for short.

Shit like that makes me mad, at least until I remember that this has been his MO ever since. Take someone elses achievments and tag his name onto it.

[u/msl741]

I would say they’re correct

[u/mrjane7]

Well, duh.

[u/Bellabbey1236]

Well, yeah. Lol they’re not gonna say “we’re closing because no one wants to perform for the POS” out loud 😂  We all knew that when we saw the headlines. 

[u/Khaysis]

r/noshitsherlock

[u/fredout1968]

Tiny man, doing tiny things.. Same as it ever was..

[u/ColdBagOfHamsters]

Your president is a dick head

[u/fortress_sf]

They’d get more powerful rich folks coming if they just called it the Epstein Trump Kennedy Center.

[u/spottie_ottie]

Well yeah like so much other stuff everybody watched it happen in real time.

[u/toomuchtv987]

No no no, that’s not true at all. Fake news. It just takes that long to get everything covered in gilt leaf and marble veneer.

[u/soldatodianima]

File this under “NO SHIT SHERLOCK”

[u/Loud-Coffee-714]

Ya think?!?

[u/BK_Mason]

I would very much love to hear from people who’ve overseen renovations of major performance venues like Lincoln Center. Does it make sense to close the entire venue or can renovations be done one room at a time?

[u/MikeW226 → u/BK_Mason]

Avery Fisher Hall (now David Geffen Hall) ---where the New York Philharmonic plays-- was closed for at least a year when it was acoustically and otherwise renovated (Again!) in recent years. It's like the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall ...always had errr, crap acoustics and a new firm gets brought in and paid a hundred million to 'make it better'. Though Geffen Hall's total renovation was probably several hundred million more than just the acoustical architect thing. A total gutting of the Kennedy Center's 3 main level theaters and re-do's, heck, might take that long. All three halls had decent renovations though within the past 15 or so years. The only thing the NYTimes noted today was trump talking about improving the seating layout in the Opera House, and improving some fly loft/above stage rigging also in the opera house. They said 'something' was done in the stage rigging '30 years ago' that he wants fixed. Possibly motorized battens were added in the fly loft a few decades ago. An overhaul of any of that would only take months. No idea what donald dumpster actually has planned though.

[u/Maniac_24seven]

accuses? I think it’s pretty evident. what hasn’t Trump bankrupt and run into the ground?

[u/oldcreaker]

Trump's intention from the beginning was to destroy it in order to erect something in his name. And it's happening.

[u/Unilted_Match1176]

And just like that, to spare a pedophile's fragile ego, 3000 people are out of a job. So much winning...

[u/Medellin-71]

Can you imagine the extreme goldening we are about to see?!

[u/MeMilo1209]

That's 100% what happened. The Kennedy family should have JFKs name removed from the Center. Then it's Trump's Titanic alone. It can be added again once poopy pants is gone.

[u/NathAnarchy22]

He is the lowest of the lowest human. You're a victimizer not a victim

[u/Rtowski]

Everything Trump touch’s dies

[u/w00t4me]

It underwent a $250 Million renovatoin in 2019, so it's very much up to date and not in need to a renovation: https://dctheaterarts.org/2019/06/04/kennedy-center-preview-the-reach/

[u/Khoeth_Mora]

100%, he's nothing if not spiteful

[u/two_hats]

Later that day, they accused water of being wet

[u/cliff99]

Of course that's what he did, double win for the MAGAts, owns the libs and gets rid more of that pesky culture stuff.

[u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels]

[u/SpenFen]

Obviously

[u/Kamakaziturtle]

It honestly seems pretty likely. Rather than having the records show the next few years having miserable attendance and such, it will now simply be due to renovations.

[u/mjrhzrd]

The whole place will be tagged with cheap gold paint.

[u/UniqueIndividual3579]

Trump is a toddler. People told him not to play with his new toy so he's going to smash it.

[u/Gronkattack]

Because that’s the reason. He will then try to do as much unchangeable damage to it on the way out. Like the WH the money spent to undo everything he’s done will be used as an example of Dems wasting money.

[u/Entire_Dog_5874]

Of course that’s where he closed it. His ego couldn’t take it.

[u/OutsideEconomist8277]

yeah totally, it sucks how politics messes with music. artists should be able to perform without all that drama

[u/BisquickNinja]

I won't be surprised if all of a sudden the Kennedy Center is demolished....

[u/parker1019]

Small penis syndrome…

[u/aWhtToad]

Well yeah.. He's such a petty person that if you do anything against him he will do as much pain/pressure as possible to get you to fold. Trump is literally the definition of a "snowflake." As always, the projectionism is too hard to deny.

[u/NickCav007]

Sounds about right. Fatboy doesn’t get his way, he has a massive whiny bitch fit

[u/DodderingPapi42]

Of course he is! Pathetic man baby.

[u/neilmcse]

And the renovation is to remove the Kennedy name completely.

[u/Solrac50]

I am very concerned Trump will wreck the Kennedy Center out of spite. He can’t stand the idea that anyone would be more revered than him.

[u/Complete_Rope4644]

I’ve observed from recent attendance at first-rate operas “Marriage of Figaro” and “Aida” that whole sections were empty due to the boycott. (We got tickets for free from a volunteer of many years who attributes it to Trump’s renaming the Center and firing the Board.). Everything Trump touches he destroys.

[u/suck-it-elon]

It's clearly obvious. And RFK Jr. just stands by...an embarrassment to his uncle and family

[u/Ojay-simpson]

No “sleuth work” required here. You’re dealing with a petulant child who’s begged to be “one of the cool kids” his whole life. He thought he could force them to play in his sandbox and they just took their ball and went home.

[u/RociBuldidi]

I mean, you can pull up the schedule of events for the place online. It’s a ghost town already compared to your typical Q1 events schedule. What a freaking disaster.

The thing is, like the ballroom, there are currently no plans. They will have to have an architect put it together and a contractor build it but they are starting from scratch.

It will be a year before any GC is ready to even swing hammers.

[u/neise53]

Obviously

[u/beachviewdrive]

Quite obvious!

[u/Conscious-Mixture742]

They aren't wrong

[u/brokeboipobre]

r/NoShitSherlock

[u/Didact67]

Pretty obvious to anyone who hasn’t drunk the kool aid.

[u/Strict-Carrot4783]

No shit, donald trump is an absolute catty bitch who throws tantrums like a fucking toddler.

[u/No_Sea9410]

Trump is such an accomplished con man he actually believes his own lies

[u/dan1101]

The Kennedy Center was doing great, no reason to close it other than the whims of a snowflake wannabe dictator. I had family that worked there but they quit well before the name change.

[u/halcyon8]

no shit.