Officials at the Kennedy Center warn it faces “certain fiscal collapse” within weeks unless Donald Trump’s name is added back to the building, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The warning appears in a draft resolution circulated to the performing arts center’s board of trustees ahead of a special meeting Tuesday, the outlets reported. The center says it could be unable to make payroll or pay routine maintenance contracts within weeks and risks bankruptcy, according to the documents.
Trump has offered to raise the money needed to keep it afloat – but only with “appropriate recognition” of his role, without which he is unlikely to lead the rescue or oversee a planned renovation, the resolution says, according to the two outlets.
Letting it die sounds callous, but it’s better than giving in.
Easy for me to say, but let her die then.
You mean trump’s hand-picked board?
I’m sure they wouldn’t burn it down just to get Our Dear Dicktater’s name back on the wall, would they?
Leave his name off. Wait for him to pass from McDonald OD. Kennedy Center donations pour in.
Unpopular opinion: Trump’s name belongs next to Kennedy. They’re both criminal dynasties with stolen wealth. I don’t care if it ruins the opera for rich cunts.
I agree with the first part (screw em both), but as someone who has been to many kennedy center events (live nearby) it is a place that tries to make the arts kind of accessible [or at least used to]. Ticket prices are either comparable or lower than concert venues and they [used to] have cool shows like in 2024 they had Andre 3000 one day, and Masego, and they have comics there too. Anyway yea fuck trumps and kennedys but I feel a need to protect arts venues.
Trump cares more about getting his name on a building that’s already named for someone else than he does about any of the campaign promises he made to the idiots who voted for him.
He kills everything. He is poison in every way. He killed the Center’s income by taking it over and adding his name, and now his lickspittles on the board are saying they won’t go bankrupt only if his name is put back.
He is seriously the worst person in the world: no one else is such a combination of stupidity and power-tantrums.
He’s a fucking parasite
Was it this insanely incompetent in nazi Germany? Did people just make up ridiculous, obvious lies all day every day and fail at the most basic aspects of governance? I really wonder.
Well, shit.
In a few weeks, we’ll find that the Kennedy Center has been sold in a “bankruptcy” sale at below-market price to real estate developer John Barron…
Oh well, shut it down till January.
Unfortunately, we know from experience that he’ll happily bulldoze things and just tell everybody he has the right to do it.
Prove it.
Someone needs to start an open letter. Title it something like “what good is an arts center no one will perform at?” Say the undersigned will not perform at a facility, property, or building with Trump’s name on it. Get thousands–everyone–every artist imaginable to sign it
Get Little Steven on it.
Van Zandt? Is he especially political? I really don’t know
Yeah, he has a history of using music to shut things down.
Everything donnie touches turns to shit.
Bullshit. They had enough to try to engrave the pedos name on the building.
You couldn’t make this shit up
