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Trump Says Kennedy Center Will Close for 2-Year Reconstruction Project (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 3 days ago by rolandwallner@feddit.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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The president’s announcement came after the center has been rocked by cancellations and boycotts by performers, contributors and audience members.

President Trump announced Sunday that he would shut down the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which has been battered by cancellations and boycotts, for two years starting this summer. He said that would allow his administration to transform what he called “a tired, broken, and dilapidated Center,” into “the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind.”

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago

It will be tacky as fuck and a permanent stain on America.

[–] atropa@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Another disaster in progress

[–] rolandwallner@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's simply a hidden admission by Trump that the people and the art world in the US disagree with the right-wing radicalism of the current administration.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 3 days ago

I guess "shut it down" is the new "own the libs."