"This is a self-inflicted crisis (Kennedy Center crisis) created by Trump and Ric Grenell, for which they bear full ."

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IF the Center opens---or re-opens--I do not think it will have the Kennedy name on it===that is too much for Trumps EGO to bear---IMHO.


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A Kennedy Center staffer to The Washington Post:

“The Kennedy Center is not closing because of any structural necessity. The situation is far simpler: This is a self-inflicted crisis created by Trump and Ric Grenell, for which they bear full responsibility.”

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“A two-year shutdown under the guise of ‘renovations’ raises serious questions about motives and whether these decisions are being made in good faith.”

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1. What happens to the valuable and treasured artworks and historical artifacts housed at the Kennedy Center?

I have no doubt that Trump is already making deals to sell it to his pals--either for money or contracts or favors!!


What happens to the valuable and treasured artworks and historical artifacts housed at the Kennedy Center?

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5696489/kennedy-center-renovation-trump-questions



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What happens to the valuable and treasured artworks and historical artifacts housed at the Kennedy Center?

These range from the famed bust of President Kennedy in its grand foyer to cultural treasures gifted by various African nations in its African Lounge. What will happen to such artworks, cultural touchstones, and archival pieces? As a private citizen in 1980, Trump demolished two Art Deco friezes at the former Bonwit Teller department store on New York's Fifth Avenue, which the Metropolitan Museum of Art had expressed interest in acquiring. The site would go on to become his Trump Tower. Last October, the entire East Wing of the White House was demolished, despite the concerns of preservationists and historians.

Will the newest iteration of the complex still be tied to President Kennedy's name and legacy?

In a social media post Monday morning, Jack Schlossberg, President Kennedy's grandson who is currently running for a congressional seat in New York's 12th district, indicated that he thinks not. He wrote: "He [Trump] can take the Kennedy Center for himself. He can change the name, shut the doors and demolish the building. He can try to kill JFK. But JFK is kept alive by us now rising up to remove Donald Trump, bring him to justice and restore the freedoms generations fought for."

[tanyev]

5. Safely stored in a few Mar-a-Lago bathrooms, no doubt.

[Skittles]

2. it belongs to WE THE PEOPLE

Donald Fucking Trump will treat it like Mar-a-Fucking-Lago

[LymphocyteLover]

3. No shit. Remember: ETTD

Everything Trump Touches Dies

[Scrivener7]

4. It's shutting because he wants to hide the fact that no one will perform there since he plastered his name on it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Insider reveals Trump's 'absurd' Kennedy Center plan -- that aides scrambled to kill (taking the Kennedy name off center

trump really wanted to rename the Kennedy Center to the trump center. trump really wanted to take Jack Kennedy's name of the center and just has his own name. trump cannot stand sharing credit with anyone.

President Donald Trump's advisers stopped him from ripping John F. Kennedy's name off the Kennedy Center altogether, leaving the cultural hub simply called the Trump Center, his biographer said."Why does this have to be Kennedy?"

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-02-06T18:00:18.860Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kennedy-center-2675105563/

President Donald Trump's advisers stopped him from ripping John F. Kennedy's name off the Kennedy Center altogether, leaving the cultural hub simply called the Trump Center, his biographer said.

“Why does this have to be Kennedy?" the president apparently argued. "That was such a long time ago.”

Trump, 79, has substantially remade the Washington, D.C. performing arts institution in his image, taking control of its board, renaming it "The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" without congressional approval, and announcing plans to close it for extensive renovations.

But writer Michael Wolff, who spent months inside the first Trump White House, told the Daily Beast that Trump's original proposal was far more ambitious. Wolff stated, "His first idea was to call this the Trump Center."

"I was almost assassinated," he said, according to Wolff. "Therefore, it should be me." Trump experienced two assassination attempts in 2024.

Trump's inner circle was able to persuade him away from the plan. Wolff said, "You can't say, 'This is a terrible idea. This is a megalomaniacal idea. This is not good politics.' You just cannot say any of that stuff to Trump. So instead, they said, 'Well, why don't we call it the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center?'"

After trump closes the Kennedy Center for two years, I would not be surprised to see the Kennedy name removed. Hopefully, trump will be gone before the two years are up