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The latest installment in the Kennedy Center drama arrived Wednesday with a court-mandated filing by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ), explaining his rationale for abruptly closing the performing arts venue last Tuesday.

It made no mention of the possible “DEMOLITION” of the center, recently threatened by Trump.

The executive director of the Kennedy Center, Matt Floca, said in the DOJ filing that the closure would extend another week, claiming “deterioration” that is “widespread” at the center. Floca cited the engineering consulting firm charged with assessing the building’s infrastructure to make the determination, ABC News reports.

When and if the center reopens depends on what else the engineering firm finds, he said.

The “temporary” closure was undertaken by the Kennedy Center board last week at Trump’s behest and immediately followed a ruling by the judge in the case challenging Trump’s stewardship. He barred the board for a second time from inscribing the president’s name on the center’s facade.

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[-] CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Are they talking about where some pedophile graffitied his name on the front of it?

[-] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just a reminder, structural damage has been intentionally done to the building

A staff member at Washington Litigation Group, one of the law firms representing Beatty, swore in a court filing that she witnessed a forklift "run into and hit the pillars on the building" several times on Wednesday as construction crews erected gates around the Kennedy Center.

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/17/nx-s1-5973036/trump-threat-tear-down-kennedy-center

[-] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

Funny... he was perfectly happy to keep it open and fully operational after he slapped his name on the building. A judge ordered it removed, and suddenly the building is decrepit and on the brink of collapse.

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

the building is decrepit and on the brink of collapse.

Now that this is established, maybe they should slap his name back on.

[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The hour before the wrecking ball starts swinging, they should slap Trump's name on the building right where the first swing is planned to hit.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

they should slap Trump ~~'s name~~ on the building right where the first swing is planned to hit.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Every time I think of donnie being a gigantic fucking man-baby, I think of this argument, but donnie is basically both sides of it, LOL.

"Where to now, Mr. Baby?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMhxJ45wslk

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

This is exactly how Doug Ford shut down the Ontario Science Centre after 56 years.

He's just a diaper away from Don.

[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 days ago

He is the the widespread deterioration.

[-] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

And widespread defecation

[-] rozodru@piefed.world 13 points 1 day ago

Trump looked at the playbook of Ontario Premier Doug Ford and said "yeah, that'll do"

Doug pulled the same shit with the Ontario Science Centre claiming the roof was going to cave in at any moment. Several major snow storms and rain storms later and the roof is still intact.

So why did Doug do that? just like Trump, they hurt his feelings....and he promised the land to his buddy mafia associate developers.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Doug Ford is basically just Trump with a still functioning brain and I fucking hate that we (Ontarians) keep voting for him

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It boggles my mind that he's on his third term. Wtf Ontario???

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

barely 44% votes, and they love the Premiere pale, male and stale.

Obese, uneducated, corrupt, racist -one of us!

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Is the opposition only running non-white people or something? When such an idiot keeps power the only reason I can think of is racists turning their brains off at the ballot box.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Marit Stiles is his best opposition, but people seem allergic to voting for the NDP (progressive party, orange). Ontario also suffers from terrible voter turnout.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Marit Stiles

She who's name shall not be spoken by US owned media.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I didn't say it was functioning well :)

[-] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just saying, it was fine before Trump put his name on it.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

His name deteriorates everything it gets slapped on.

[-] GreenBean@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

It's got trump stank all over it, perhaps?

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 22 points 2 days ago

The deterioration is purely moral.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

and mentally but only for trump and magats.

[-] tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I agree it has widespread deterioration, but not for reasons he’d agree with.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

trumps prescense they was causing a deterioration field.

[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

None of whom have spotted any deterioration in the orange buffoon, the Whitehouse or related?......

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Can they perform on the grounds, but not in the building? Kinda like mega busking?

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Algae blooms

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