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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction.

Trump’s announcement on social media follows a wave of cancellations since Trump ousted the previous leadership and added his name to the building. Trump made no mention in his post of the recent cancellations.

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago

This has all the "you can't quit, you're fired!" Feeling that comes with any six year old throwing a tantrum on the playground. Once again, MAGA is led by a child.

[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ie. they're going to tear it down before midterms.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

They are going to tear it down and turn the remodel into a grift machine. I'll be surprised if it ever reopens in his lifetime.

The grift is so bad that we won't need to demolish anything to erase Trump. He will have torn down everything in order to rebuild it in his own image. Rebuilds that will never happen. He will leave craters everywhere for us to rebuild in his wake.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ANYTHING.

LITERALLY ANYTHING TO DISTRACT FROM THE PEDO-FILES.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think this one is about Epstein, but instead an excuse to cover up all the artists canceling gigs there because of trump's illegal renaming.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

USA Today has rolled with the name change. Just a thing I noticed before uninstalling their app.