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.
Let it die then. Fuck Trump.
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.
Let’s see: they put his name on it and it immediately started hemorrhaging donors. Maybe that’s why they don’t have money, hmm?
(And count me among the people who don’t believe they ever took his name off—I don’t think they ever took the tarps down so anyone could see.)
That’s a fucking lie.
It’s a stupid lie. Not even a good one.
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.
Pathetic. Board should be fired.
“We’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas.” Kennedy Center Board, I guess.
When Trump tried to put his name on it before, we learned a lot about the board and its process. Basically how Trump stacked the board, and that the only reason that the name change resolution passed “unanimously” was that they didn’t allow everybody to vote on it. Republicans sure do love their voter suppression.
So the problem is that if you fire the board, Trump will simply find other sycophants to put on the board, and you’ll be getting rid of all dissent.
Preparatory to imprisonment.
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.
Trump’s narcissistic meddling did this to the Kennedy Center. Let it die, we can always re-open it at a later time or build a new one.
Considering the track record of buildings with his name on them and bankruptcy, putting his name back will have the opposite effect.
Haha, no. So many artists have canceled shows there when the pedophiles name was illegally added to the building. This is the biggest crock of shit lie coming from the pedophile loyalists that were installed there.
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.
Yes actually. Many European leaders did not expect Hitlers rise to succeed or Germany to actually be able start a war because of such buffoonery and big lies. The Nazis succeeded out of audacity and luck, and the third reich would have crumbled like the cancer it was at some point in the 50s without the war, but possibly with a greater death toll, possibly not. The Nazis painted over the cracks in the foundation, didn’t actually repair anything. Like a modern US landlord.
Well, shit.
The best of the best aren’t willing to do this kind of work.
Not even the competent-if-unremarkable, it seems.
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
