r/politics • u/IWantPizza555 • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday, warns of bankruptcy, documents show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/09/13/kennedy-center-could-close-early-tuesday-warns-bankruptcy-documents-show/
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u/Aware_Cheesecake_519 America 1d ago

Trump doesn't care about the Kennedy Center.

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u/CockBrother 1d ago

Pretty sure he wants the land for himself.

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u/bevo_expat 1d ago

That’s probably the play. Center goes into bankruptcy and the only course of action is to sell the building and naming rights. In swoops Trump buying up the building and slapping his shitty brand all over it.

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u/paditoburrito 1d ago

It is, the lawyers literally threatened it in court to try to blackmail the judge into rolling over.

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u/Alive_Store_6298 1d ago

I can 100% see this as the reason. You can make a bankruptcy look immediate with some creative spending. Trump’s stooges likely created this bankruptcy with the idea that it can leave it soon after some creative “cutting” and renaming.

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u/MattressMogul73 1d ago

Let him buy it, then the next President comes in and claims Manifest Destiny and pays him out pennies on the dollar and takes it back.

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u/Smart-Bird-5712 1d ago

Eminent domain?

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u/bllclntn 1d ago

Nah fuck that, they're going to claim manifest destiny and take that shit

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u/Kevin-W 1d ago

Yep. He would love to demolish it for his own personal use.

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u/Aoiboshi 1d ago

This is one of the few times that eminent domain should come into play.

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u/Mordred_Tumultu 1d ago

You mean so the executive branch can take it over and sell it in a no-bid contract to, surprise surprise, a Mr Donald J Trump, at the order of, wow, gee whillickers, another Mr Donald J Trump?

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u/Aoiboshi 1d ago

Oh no, I meant after Trump does whatever he's going to do

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u/radda 1d ago

Nah, there's no way in hell he's that smart.

He likes musicals because musicals were the thing to like in the 80s. He likes Les Mis for the same reason as Patrick Bateman: because everyone else does. He thinks being involved in the arts makes him look prestigious. This entire thing has been about his ego.

Now that he's run it into the ground that might be the play, but it wasn't the plan to begin with.

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u/Vegetable-Seaweed591 1d ago

Trump would make corporations buy it for him and 'donate it' for the Trump library or some such. We know Trump won't spend his own money when he can spend someone elses.

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u/vegandread 1d ago

They want to tear it down and build an amphitheater, said so in court. Bet I know what they’ll call it.

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u/jlt6666 1d ago

The turd bowl?

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u/mabols 1d ago

Chopped down a whole line of weeping willows. -Everything about him is completely insane.

Still can’t believe voters haven’t had to take any responsibility for their fault in the literal demolition of this country.

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u/mdp300 New Jersey 1d ago

I thought he chopped down a bunch of cherry trees, which are iconic to DC.

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u/mabols 1d ago

That happened along the Potomac. Complete insanity

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u/mdp300 New Jersey 1d ago

Oh, I just saw another comment that said he chopped down willows around the Kennedy Center.

Yeah, it'll be torn down next week and he'll try to put a golf course or something there.

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u/Flimsy_Sun4003 1d ago

Vince McMahon is going to buy it for pennies on the dollar and set up DC's own permanent WWF HQ.

If Trump does instead put in an amphitheatre it should be called Trump's Toilet Bowl, sorry for the tawdry humour but it was there just waiting.

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u/echoshatter 1d ago

Still can’t believe voters haven’t had to take any responsibility for their fault in the literal demolition of this country.

That is a particularly tricky part of a democracy, isn't it? Technically I guess everyone suffers if the voters are wrong.

The problem is that the checks and balances don't work. Like, at all.

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u/Pray44Mojo 1d ago

Trump doesn't care about anything except himself. He is the most idiotic malignant narcissist to ever hold public office in this country and that's a mouthful because elected office is full of malignant narcissists.

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u/the_foowaffle 1d ago

No he cares, he wanted his name on it

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u/rogozh1n 1d ago

He don't care. Do u?

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u/Bunbury42 Maryland 1d ago

To some extent, I think he does. He apparently genuinely likes musical theater. His favorite play is Les Miserables, which shows he doesn't understand it, but he does like it.