Is Trump really trying to demolish the Kennedy Center out of spite? Do you think that's acceptable?

[Anonymous]

"I saw that black metal gates had been placed in front of the building since I left. I walked around to both the north and south sides of the building and saw that the gates wrapped all around there, too, and blocked all the staircases leading to the building."

"Afterward, I saw a forklift carrying what appeared to be a more permanent form of fencing drive over to the north side of the building. I saw the forklift run into and hit the pillars on the building several times."

This, hours after a judge ordered the Kennedy board to stop the venue from closing until it approved a shutdown in compliance with his order, and he lifted the freeze. Cooper cited that previous order in his newest order, noting that the board voted to close the Center on Tuesday, even though Cooper has not lifted the freeze—putting Trump and the Kennedy board in direct violation of a court order.

Republican, acceptable

Republican, not acceptable

Democrat, acceptable

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[gasman70]

according to the associated press, which is least biased news source there is, Trump closed the Kennedy center to make safety fixes to it and because of the upgrades Trump wanted to add his name to it. The only reason this rumor was made about the Kennedy center that Trump wanted it ripped down was because it was said that if the center couldn't be fixed to meet safety standards it might have to be torn down. The adding of Trumps name was blocked.

[Asker]

Sure, it became absolutely unsafe within hours of him being told he couldn't put his name on it.

[gasman70]

it was unsafe to begin with, that's why it was shut down for repairs, you have to do some deconstruction before you can rebuild. sometimes you can't do what you need to do to make it up to standard, or it's so expensive its beyond reason to fix.

[Asker]

Was it so unsafe yesterday that it should have been closed? Last week, even? Or when the case went to court, months ago?

It it had been, nobody would have objected to a closure. It wasn't unsafe, that's a lie.

[gasman70]

try harder, your attempt at gaslighting and guessing and reaching are epic

[Asker]

Really? That's me, not you? Come on. If the place had been a danger to visitors for months, why weren't they kept out until Trump lost his court case?

Do you even remember the East Wing?

[gasman70]

look dude, you're reaching hard, you need a non bias news source, the ap is about as non bias as you can get. you gotta get out of the CNBC, CNN zone.

[Asker]

The AP said nothing of the sort. It reports what Trump claims, which is not the same. He's lying, and so are you.

[Jamie05rhs]

If he gets impeached again, I hope he actually gets removed from office this time.

[Anonymous]

If it isn’t a monument to him, he has no use for it. Typical narcissist

[exitseven]

The Kennedys took Trumps name off the building out of spite. Trump was trying to save it.

[Asker]

The courts ruled that only Congress could change the name. That's absolutely not the same thing.

How would you feel if someone carved their name on your grandmother's tombstone?

[gasman70]

it was blocked but what you said about it being ripped down was bad information

[exitseven]

Yes, I guess that is true.
too bad all the donors that President Trump lined up to renovate the building have pulled their funding. The ceiling is falling down and there is plumbing and foundation issues that need to be fixed too. The building had to be shuttered and unless the Kennedys want to pay for it it will most like stay that way, I guess they really showed President Trump.

[gasman70]

the word was that it might have to be demolished if it couldn't be fixed up to safety standards, Trump was never out to demolish it. so I wish you wouldn't post out right lies

[Asker]

Funny how he couldn't possibly renovate the building without $2000 of his name over the door.

[exitseven]

@gasman70 I never said he was out to demolish it. He had donors lined up who were going to pay to renovate the building.

[Asker]

And he couldn't convince those donors to put up the money unless his name was over the door?

[strateguy632]

the roof fell. it needs to be demolished.

[Asker]

No it didn't. No it doesn't.

[strateguy632]

Part of the ceiling in the Kennedy Center has collapsed. What happens now? ↗

[Asker]

You think that a hole in the ceiling maybe a foot in diameter is "the roof"?

You know that Congress appropriated roughly $257 million for the Kennedy Center in a 2025 omnibus/reconciliation measure, and that funding has been described in reporting and the Center’s own materials as restricted to capital work, repairs, maintenance backlog and security. It's Trump that's holding the work up while he demands his name be illegally placed on the memorial to JFK.

[strateguy632]

wow you got me i left out the words 'part of the roof'. but the idea is true it is collapsing it started collapsing so it needs to be demolished.

[strateguy632]

and i am sure he has a tombstone even without this.

[Asker]

Not "part of the roof", part of the ceiling. It's different, look it up. You don't demolish a building because of a leak in the roof.

[strateguy632]

but it fell. it can fall on a person. for safety just demolish.

[Asker]

Oh, FFS, there was a leak in the roof, 0.001% of the ceiling fell down, let's destroy the entire building!

[strateguy632]

for safety it could have fallen on someones head. more might fall.

[rgb008]

Kennedy is still alive?

[gasman70]

not the one it was named after and none of the close relatives are either.

[rgb008]

@gasman70 oh 😢 rest in peace xox

[Asker]

That's the point of monuments, to keep the names of people who have done great things alive after they're dead.

Trump knows nobody is going to do that for him.

[gasman70]

You do realize that John F Kennedy was assassinated in the early/mid 1960's, while he was president, while he was in Dallas TX in a motorcade? His youngest brother died in 2009. JFK's son died in a plane crash in 1999, JFK's other brother was assassinated trying to run for president in 1968, Bobby Kennedy.

[rgb008]

@gasman70 I didn’t know…

[Asker]

@gasman70 Yes, that's the point.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

[gasman70]

understandable, it happened a long time ago. The asker is just trying to say this, that monuments are to remember people to cover his outright lie that he posted because I outed it as such.

[Asker]

@gasman70 Gosh, a meta-lie!