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.
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.
Preparatory to imprisonment.
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
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.
That’s a fucking lie.
It’s a stupid lie. Not even a good one.
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?
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.
Manufactured failure is still the responsibility of the those in charge.
Utter bullshit. Trump dictates who does amd who doesn’t get funded now, with the cowardly GOP dominated Congress just sitting by.
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.”
Tommy Tubs couldn’t name his family dog.
There are smarter goldfish in anaerobic ponds than Tommy Tuberville.
That’s easy: Offense, defense, special teams
It’s insane how childish that joke of a country has become, and everyone from the media to the democrats is just playing along.
Letting it die sounds callous, but it’s better than giving in.
Easy for me to say, but let her die then.
Trump cares more about getting his name on a building that’s already named for someone else than he does about any of the campaign promises he made to the idiots who voted for him.
I mean delivering on campaign promises is hard. Changing the name on a building is something Trump has experience with.
Considering the track record of buildings with his name on them and bankruptcy, putting his name back will have the opposite effect.
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
Capitalism was always going to trend towards end stage. Anyone who wasn’t covering their eyes and ears yelling how great and exceptional the US and capitalism are foresaw this.
People are so propagandized that they believed that endless expansion was possible. They didn’t even notice that they were being edged out of the world.
