{"id":14807,"date":"2026-02-02T11:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=14807"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:16:58","slug":"trump-announces-2-year-closure-of-kennedy-center-for-complete-rebuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=14807","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces 2-year closure of Kennedy Center for \u2018complete rebuilding\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ScreenShot_2026-02-02_111505_792.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ScreenShot_2026-02-02_111505_792.png 315w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ScreenShot_2026-02-02_111505_792-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump on Sunday announced that the Kennedy Center would be closed for a two-year restoration beginning in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Trump Kennedy Center will close on July 4th, 2026, in honor of the 250th Anniversary of our Country, whereupon we will simultaneously begin Construction of the new and spectacular Entertainment Complex,\u201d Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. \u201cFinancing is completed, and fully in place!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president said that a one-time, two-year closure of the facility would be the \u201cfastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur\u201d as opposed to partial closures for construction that would have to work in and around the performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the post, however, he said that this plan would be \u201ctotally subject to board approval.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President of the Kennedy Center Richard Grenell, a close Trump ally, made a post on the social platform X on Sunday saying he was grateful for Trump\u2019s \u201cvisionary leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am also grateful to Congress for appropriating an historic $257M to finally address decades of deferred maintenance and repairs at the Trump Kennedy Center,\u201d Grenell said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur goal has always been to not only save and permanently preserve the Center, but to make it the finest Arts Institution in the world. It desperately needs this renovation and temporarily closing the Center just makes sense \u2013 it will enable us to better invest our resources, think bigger and make the historic renovations more comprehensive. It also means we will be finished faster.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hill has reached out to the Kennedy Center for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December, the board voted to rename the center \u201cThe Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.\u201d Also in December, Trump made history as the first president to emcee the institution\u2019s marquee event, the Kennedy Center Honors. The move to host the Honors came months after Trump overhauled the arts hub named for the 35th president, accusing it of being too \u201cwoke\u201d while booting several bipartisan members of its board and installing himself as its chairman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his first term in office, Trump bucked tradition and skipped the Kennedy Center Honors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the decision to rename the center with the addition of the president\u2019s name, multiple cancellations have come in from artists and groups recently scheduled to perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Composer Phillip Glass just last week canceled a performance scheduled with the National Symphony Orchestra in June. Artists including opera singer Ren\u00e9e Fleming, banjo player B\u00e9la Fleck, Doug Varone and Dancers, Kristy Lee and others have canceled shows at the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ticket sales have also declined since Trump took control of the center\u2019s operations, according to an analysis from The Washington Post in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s announcement of the potential temporary closure came just days after he joined Melania Trump on Thursday at the Kennedy Center for the world premiere of the first lady\u2019s documentary film, \u201cMelania.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Sunday announced that the Kennedy Center would be closed for a two-year restoration beginning in July. \u201cThe Trump Kennedy Center will close on July 4th, 2026, in honor of the 250th Anniversary of our Country, whereupon we will simultaneously begin Construction of the new and spectacular Entertainment Complex,\u201d Trump wrote in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2578,1948,1724],"class_list":["post-14807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-center","tag-kennedy","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - 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