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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[–] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 21 hours 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

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  • [–] 3 points 23 hours 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

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    the building is decrepit and on the brink of collapse.

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

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago

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

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    He is the the widespread deterioration.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The deterioration is purely moral.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Algae blooms

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