Stephen Portnoy
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2d ago
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to the red carpet floor.
Now, the building was empty at the time, but you see the debris scattered over a pretty wide field.
And Ludnick said in his social media post on Monday night that someone could have been killed and that no one should be able to enter the building anymore and it's time to close it for good.
Brad, this has been a fight that's been leading to this point for the better part of a year.
Take it down!
It was last December.
The board voted to change the name of the Kennedy Center.
President Trump said he wanted it to be closed for renovations.
Congress had already put $257 million on the table and approved that funding for renovations.
And now we're at this point where the president says if he doesn't get his name on the side of the building, the building will be closed and not renovated at all.
Well, this is my question, Stephen, is, yeah, the
going into any center.
It's hard to know exactly what is driving the timing of this, but let's just put it in sequence.
You had the judge's ruling in May that when the board voted months earlier to close at the president's insistence, that the board had not properly acted as fiduciaries, that they hadn't considered the impact on the programming and the finances of the Kennedy Center, that they needed to basically look at it more carefully.
So since late May, the board has been looking at various options.
And last month, the board accepted a recommendation from an outside consulting group to close the Kennedy Center for two years.
for a renovation that would cost something on the order of $280 million.
Now, attached to that vote was another resolution honoring the president.
And this is where things get really sticky.
It's not just about closing the center and renovating it.
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