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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.

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[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago
[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Manufactured failure is still the responsibility of the those in charge.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Then shut it down.

[-] architect@thelemmy.club 4 points 6 days ago

I didn’t even know this shit hole existed before they fucked it up. Good. Bye!

[-] architect@thelemmy.club 3 points 6 days ago

Fuck the Kennedy’s, too!

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 160 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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....

[-] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 79 points 1 week ago

Pathetic. Board should be fired.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 26 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

They're all Trump cronies, they kicked the real board out :(

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

"We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas." Kennedy Center Board, I guess.

[-] deacon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Preparatory to imprisonment.

[-] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 50 points 1 week ago

This issue falls quite low on the list of current National emergencies. Shut it down until after the midterms.

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago

I'd rather it be bulldozed than have Trump's name plastered all over it.

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[-] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 43 points 1 week ago

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.)

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[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 41 points 1 week ago
[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

It's a stupid lie. Not even a good one.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] chunk6235@piefed.social 29 points 1 week ago

"We're totes gonna go broke soon if you don't let us do the illegal thing that's the direct cause of us being broke!"

Man, republicans are so fucking stupid they think everyone is as dumb as they are.

[-] ClownStatue@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

In fairness, at least a third of the country is at least as dumb as they are. Sometimes, that’s enough!

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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

I believe that statement from the Trump appointed board as much as I believe in the statement "Tommy Tuberville can absolutely name the three branches of the US government."

[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Tommy Tubs couldn't name his family dog.

There are smarter goldfish in anaerobic ponds than Tommy Tuberville.

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[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Let it go defunct

Have a new group purchase it.

Make it a tribute to everything trump isn't.

Name it the Dead Kennedy Center

[-] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Letting it die sounds callous, but it's better than giving in.

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[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago

It’s insane how childish that joke of a country has become, and everyone from the media to the democrats is just playing along.

[-] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago

Considering the track record of buildings with his name on them and bankruptcy, putting his name back will have the opposite effect.

[-] Octavio@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago

It's a theater. Nothing irreplaceable about it. If they want to go down this road there are plenty of other places for performers to perform. Mothball it until we have a normal government again.

[-] Ravenheart@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

Let it die then. Fuck Trump.

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[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Bullshit. They had enough to try to engrave the pedos name on the building.

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Leave his name off. Wait for him to pass from McDonald OD. Kennedy Center donations pour in.

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[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

He’s a fucking parasite

[-] Bwaz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Utter bullshit. Trump dictates who does amd who doesn't get funded now, with the cowardly GOP dominated Congress just sitting by.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] thecaptaintrout@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

You mean like the Trump Taj Mahal?

[-] raef@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Well it is now run by Trump's hand pick cronies and all Trump knows how to do is bankrupt things. Sad but if I were an American I'd worry more about the fact that he is close to bankrupting the whole country.

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