Officials at the Kennedy Center warn it faces “certain fiscal collapse” within weeks unless Donald Trump’s name is added back to the building, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The warning appears in a draft resolution circulated to the performing arts center’s board of trustees ahead of a special meeting Tuesday, the outlets reported. The center says it could be unable to make payroll or pay routine maintenance contracts within weeks and risks bankruptcy, according to the documents.
Trump has offered to raise the money needed to keep it afloat – but only with “appropriate recognition” of his role, without which he is unlikely to lead the rescue or oversee a planned renovation, the resolution says, according to the two outlets.
Let it go defunct
Have a new group purchase it.
Make it a tribute to everything trump isn’t.
Name it the Dead Kennedy Center
It’s a theater. Nothing irreplaceable about it. If they want to go down this road there are plenty of other places for performers to perform. Mothball it until we have a normal government again.
It’s insane how childish that joke of a country has become, and everyone from the media to the democrats is just playing along.
Well it is now run by Trump’s hand pick cronies and all Trump knows how to do is bankrupt things. Sad but if I were an American I’d worry more about the fact that he is close to bankrupting the whole country.
I believe that statement from the Trump appointed board as much as I believe in the statement “Tommy Tuberville can absolutely name the three branches of the US government.”
That’s easy: Offense, defense, special teams
Tommy Tubs couldn’t name his family dog.
There are smarter goldfish in anaerobic ponds than Tommy Tuberville.
You mean trump’s hand-picked board?
I’m sure they wouldn’t burn it down just to get Our Dear Dicktater’s name back on the wall, would they?
Letting it die sounds callous, but it’s better than giving in.
Easy for me to say, but let her die then.
Let it die then. Fuck Trump.
That’s not the answer. It is an institution that was designed to serve the public good and has done since the 1960s. Nobody could have foreseen this.
It can be rebuilt later under better conditions. If you have to bend your knee to a pedophilific felon just to keep the doors open it’s not fucking worth it.
His fucking name on a building means NOTHING to it’s operations. It’s pure vanity and should be treated as such.
Fucking spineless people
I never suggests acquiescence. I am suggesting that it is a precious resource that should be preserved.
Bankruptcy is not death, despite op
Let’s see: they put his name on it and it immediately started hemorrhaging donors. Maybe that’s why they don’t have money, hmm?
(And count me among the people who don’t believe they ever took his name off—I don’t think they ever took the tarps down so anyone could see.)
Donors and performers.
Haha, no. So many artists have canceled shows there when the pedophiles name was illegally added to the building. This is the biggest crock of shit lie coming from the pedophile loyalists that were installed there.
Pathetic. Board should be fired.
They’re all Trump cronies, they kicked the real board out :(
“We’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas.” Kennedy Center Board, I guess.
When Trump tried to put his name on it before, we learned a lot about the board and its process. Basically how Trump stacked the board, and that the only reason that the name change resolution passed “unanimously” was that they didn’t allow everybody to vote on it. Republicans sure do love their voter suppression.
So the problem is that if you fire the board, Trump will simply find other sycophants to put on the board, and you’ll be getting rid of all dissent.
Preparatory to imprisonment.
That’s a fucking lie.
It’s a stupid lie. Not even a good one.
Leave his name off. Wait for him to pass from McDonald OD. Kennedy Center donations pour in.
the self induced problem solves itself.
Trump’s narcissistic meddling did this to the Kennedy Center. Let it die, we can always re-open it at a later time or build a new one.
In a few weeks, we’ll find that the Kennedy Center has been sold in a “bankruptcy” sale at below-market price to real estate developer John Barron…
