{"id":95907,"date":"2026-08-25T22:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T22:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-administration-warns-kennedy-center-could-be-knocked-down-if-renovations-dont-move-forward\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T22:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T22:53:18","slug":"trump-administration-warns-kennedy-center-could-be-knocked-down-if-renovations-dont-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-administration-warns-kennedy-center-could-be-knocked-down-if-renovations-dont-move-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration warns Kennedy Center could be knocked down if renovations don&#8217;t move forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Trump administration said it may need to demolish the Kennedy Center if a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kennedy-center-board-votes-trump-name-joyce-beatty\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">plan to close the building for two years<\/a><\/span> as part of a controversial renovation project pushed by President Trump and the organization&#8217;s board of trustees is blocked by a federal judge.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/72069932\/68\/beatty-v-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court filing<\/a>, the Justice Department said the center&#8217;s &#8220;dangerously dilapidated, outdated, and decrepit&#8221; conditions, in addition to millions in financial losses, put the living memorial to President John F. Kennedy in a &#8220;financial and structural death spiral&#8221; that will require it to close for renovations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without those efforts, the Center will deteriorate further into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down, with a determination to follow on what to build on the site, such as a large outdoor amphitheater overlooking the Potomac River that has been proposed, by some, for many years,&#8221; lawyers for the federal government wrote.<\/p>\n<p>There are no official existing plans to tear down the almost 55-year-old performing arts center. But the warning could raise the stakes in a monthslong legal dispute over the center, which Mr. Trump and his handpicked board of trustees have sought to overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, a board member who filed a lawsuit over the changes to the Kennedy Center, skewered Tuesday&#8217;s filing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a not-so-subtle threat to demolish the Kennedy Center if the President doesn&#8217;t get his way,&#8221; said attorneys Norm Eisen and Nathaniel Zelinsky. &#8220;This is unconscionable, it is unbecoming of the Department of Justice to even put this in a filing, and we will answer in court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Kennedy Center&#8217;s board <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kennedy-center-board-votes-trump-name-joyce-beatty\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">voted earlier this month<\/a><\/span> to close the center and add Mr. Trump&#8217;s name to its facade, marking its second attempt to make those sweeping changes.<\/p>\n<p>Less than three months earlier, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper barred the center&#8217;s closure and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kennedy-center-judge-blocks-closure-trump-name-change\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">ordered Mr. Trump&#8217;s name to be removed<\/a> from the building, ruling in Beatty&#8217;s favor. Construction crews <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kennedy-center-trump-name-judge\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">removed the president&#8217;s name<\/a><\/span> from the facade, but the front portico of the building has been covered by a construction tarp since then, concealing most of its name.<\/p>\n<p>In his May ruling, Cooper found the board was &#8220;derelict in discharging the full range of its responsibilities to the Center&#8221; by moving to close the institution, calling the decision to cease operations during renovations &#8220;ill-informed and seemingly preordained.&#8221; Cooper said he was not &#8220;categorically&#8221; barring the center from closing its doors or moving forward with construction, but wanted to ensure the board followed &#8220;certain minimum requirements imposed by law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a mid-August meeting that Mr. Trump called into, the Kennedy Center&#8217;s board approved closure plans yet again. The board also <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972.64.2_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted in favor<\/a> of adding the phrase &#8220;Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump&#8221; to the end of the center&#8217;s formal name, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and moved to rename the physical site as the &#8220;President Donald J. Trump Plaza.&#8221; Prior to Cooper&#8217;s ruling, the board had attempted to rename the organization altogether as the Trump-Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n<p>In <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-kennedy-center-white-house-ballroom-details\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">court filings last week<\/a><\/span>, the Trump administration said it will pause its latest round of planned changes to the building until Sept. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Beatty once again asked the court to block the president&#8217;s name from being added to the building, <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972.67.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling<\/a> it &#8220;d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again.&#8221; Beatty&#8217;s lawyers have argued that only Congress, not the Kennedy Center&#8217;s board, may change the name of the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a new and breathtaking act of defiance of Congress and of this Court, Defendants have voted to return President Trump&#8217;s name to the Kennedy Center&#8217;s fa\u00e7ade. This time, Trump&#8217;s name will appear on the building&#8217;s front portico not once, but twice,&#8221; Beatty&#8217;s lawyers wrote, calling the repeated additions of Mr. Trump&#8217;s name to the building &#8220;a transparent effort to rename the Center in President Trump&#8217;s honor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cooper is set to hear arguments from lawyers for Beatty on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Justice Department defended the center&#8217;s board of trustees, arguing that the resolution is &#8220;completely lawful,&#8221; and accused Beatty of a &#8220;hyper-partisan effort to oppose any recognition of President Trump&#8217;s contributions to the Center.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even Beatty should prefer a healthy, restored Center to a decaying hulk that is doomed to inevitable destruction or collapse,&#8221; the Justice Department wrote. &#8220;The Court should allow the Board and President Trump to bring the Center back to a level of greatness far higher than it has ever had before. 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