Trump says the Kennedy Center will close in July for two-year renovation project - The Weekend Primetime - MS NOW

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Amid dwindling ticket sales and canceled performances, Trump announced on his social media platform that the Kennedy Center will close for two years for renovations. Antonia Hylton reports. - Aired on 02/01/2026.

[QueerDuck]

1. I predict: demolition. OR, it will be gutted and transformed into some sort of tacky gilded baroque brothel decor.

[pfitz59]

2. Translation: No one will perform there

So I'll just shut it down for 'renovations.

[Ray Bruns]

3. I didn't know it took two years to install stripper poles and dancing platforms.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Insider reveals Trump's 'absurd' Kennedy Center plan -- that aides scrambled to kill (taking the Kennedy name off center

trump really wanted to rename the Kennedy Center to the trump center. trump really wanted to take Jack Kennedy's name of the center and just has his own name. trump cannot stand sharing credit with anyone.

President Donald Trump's advisers stopped him from ripping John F. Kennedy's name off the Kennedy Center altogether, leaving the cultural hub simply called the Trump Center, his biographer said."Why does this have to be Kennedy?"

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President Donald Trump's advisers stopped him from ripping John F. Kennedy's name off the Kennedy Center altogether, leaving the cultural hub simply called the Trump Center, his biographer said.

“Why does this have to be Kennedy?" the president apparently argued. "That was such a long time ago.”

Trump, 79, has substantially remade the Washington, D.C. performing arts institution in his image, taking control of its board, renaming it "The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" without congressional approval, and announcing plans to close it for extensive renovations.

But writer Michael Wolff, who spent months inside the first Trump White House, told the Daily Beast that Trump's original proposal was far more ambitious. Wolff stated, "His first idea was to call this the Trump Center."

"I was almost assassinated," he said, according to Wolff. "Therefore, it should be me." Trump experienced two assassination attempts in 2024.

Trump's inner circle was able to persuade him away from the plan. Wolff said, "You can't say, 'This is a terrible idea. This is a megalomaniacal idea. This is not good politics.' You just cannot say any of that stuff to Trump. So instead, they said, 'Well, why don't we call it the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center?'"

After trump closes the Kennedy Center for two years, I would not be surprised to see the Kennedy name removed. Hopefully, trump will be gone before the two years are up