Trump’s temper tantrum
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Why did President Trump threaten to demolish the Kennedy Center?
DC's hottest club Friday night was a protest at the John F. Donald J. Trump Kennedy Memorial Center, and I had to go. It had everything. Boomers with signs. I too have a dream. Reopen under new management. Boomers in t-shirts that said Lake Ontario. You do something worthwhile, then you can start getting memorials. Boomers in a marching band playing Bob Marley and the White Stripes. There were chants.
Keep your tiny hands off! Keep your tiny hands up! And speeches. Music and the arts. Is how we actually survive
and passionate booing. We're gonna tell you how and why the president threw a big old Kennedy Center size temper tantrum on today Explained from Fox.
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Wow. I didn't know that. I just uh you're telling me now for the first time.
Sean Romasfirm here with Jonathan Edwards from the Washington Post, who's been writing all about the president and the Kennedy Center lately, and it sure seems like the president is trying to shut the center down, or worse, simply because he can't get his name on it. But we asked Jonathan if there's a smoking gun that proves it. No smoking gun,
but I I I understand your concern or interest in the timeline. I have a lot of those same questions you have. The order. That comes out Tuesday morning from the judge saying You cannot add President Trump's name back on the building. I was very clear about this in May, and I'm being clear now. Do not do this. And then almost immediately the Board of Trustees holds its meeting in which, you know, our reporting shows President Trump was just very unhappy with that ruling, criticized the judge, and then the board ends up voting to close immediately. Shortly after that meeting, President Trump posts on True Social saying that the building is going to close immediately.
Bruce. Social. The board of the Kennedy Center today agreed almost unanimously to close the building for safety reasons, and so that it can begin the process of reconstruction. The closing will take place immediately. However, the renovation and reconstruction, which is a very large and complex job, cannot begin until such time as the DC Circuit rules on the board's approved name. Yeah.
And then following that you have the executive director, Matt Floca, who was hand-picked by Trump. To lead the Kennedy Center, saying, I don't know anything about that. That's unrelated to the board's vote to close for two years. But by the way, I am also closing the center because it is dangerous. This order of mine has also nothing to do with the board's vote to close for two years, because that needs The judge's approval. My order is because there are these imminent life safety issues. And we're gonna close for seven days to everyone but essential personnel and I will make a decision at the end of that seven days whether That closure needs to continue and I'll keep making that decision. every week on a rolling basis.
So essentially an indefinite closure.
Tell us more about this meeting that transpired between President Trump and I believe the Kennedy Center trustees on the Tuesday between a judge saying no name and the center shutting down.
It was a previously scheduled board meeting, like you said, uh of the the Board of Trustees, the governing body of the Kennedy Center. And at first they were set to discuss two issues. One To once again take up Adding President Trump's name back onto the Kennedy Center. And two, to vote to close immediately. They had already voted to close for two years of renovations the month before, but management at ahead of this meeting was now recommending that they do so immediately, that it was dangerous and they needed to close.
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