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So... the freshly renamed "Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts" has problems finding artists wanting to perform for trump.
Solution: Close it down for two years, and giving it the East Wing treatment to turn it into another gaudy monument built to the taste of the Dear Leader (for $ 200 Millionen so far).
Source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reveals-jaw-dropping-scale-of-kennedy-center-teardown/
President Donald Trump insisted he wouldn’t level the Kennedy Center with his planned renovations, but his explanation of the construction on Monday raised questions about just how far he would actually go.
The president revealed that the project would cost $200 million after he posted on Sunday that the performing arts center would be closed for two years starting in July.
“I’m not ripping it down. We’ll be using the steel, so we’re using the structure,” Trump declared on Monday.
The president claimed they would be “using some of the marble” and “some of the marble comes down.”
But his comments suggested it would be stripped down to the studs starting this summer.
“The steel will all be checked out because it’ll be fully exposed,” Trump said.
It comes just months after the president completely bulldozed the East Wing of the White House in a shocking move that sparked national outrage.
Before he leveled it, the Trump administration had insisted the construction of his new ballroom would largely not interfere with the historic building.
lightfoot2
Yep. Hey wait till he drops the Washington Monument on July 4th
mightybushkin
All dictators crave grandeur
Sixsystems
The $200 million price tag is just another "2 weeks" statement.
PuppyBella
WHY is YamTits spending money on a ballroom, an arch, and a renovated Kennedy center? We are not feeding our people, but we are feeding baby trump's desire for shiny things.
Huor
"It's going to be great!"
[shits pants]
SleepyHollowAppleTree
The only thing I want to see with his silly ass name.
imnotSpaceMonster
There was a quote in one article about marble armrests. Never mind how cold and uncomfortable they would be but how marble will affect the sound quality. The shape of these buildings plus material is important to the people building/renovating if they care about performing arts.
iusedtodream
He's a drug addict. Of course he's going to pull all the copper out of the walls and strip the place for metal to sell.
rbudrick
He's gonna tear it down.
ConnectToReality
I hope whoever takes office next engages in cleaning up all the shit this moron smeared all over the capitol in effort of leaving a gilded legacy.
sarahsaurroar
It's grifting season again.
paeches
no doubt the plans won't include proper acoustics
areis30
He's tearing down the whole US, so tearing down a building is nothing compared to that.
ToSisPoS
boumboum34
Nobody wanted to perform in a building with his name plastered on it, so he's having a hissy fit and tearing a historic landmark down.
Why is no one telling him "NO"? It doesn't belong to him, and he stiffs his contractors.
Rangar
There's nothing wrong with the Kennedy Center besides Trump putting his effing name on it.
AWarningToOthers
The ballroom was going to be $200 million but has doubled in cost. Just one more grifting in a long line.
therealalansmithee
He’s planning to rip it down so he can say it’s no longer the Kennedy Center, drop the name entirely and it’s now the DJT Center. I know he’s already graffitied his name on the building, but this will make it easier. Also, $200 million? Expect that figure to skyrocket and don’t step in the bullshit when he says it’ll be paid by donations (bribes)
AmyBethMegJo
It is not just a performance center; it is a memorial of JFK. Kennedy will be erased by the time Trump is finished with it.
REOJackwagon
Also the historic buildings in DC that were gov offices. He probably has some dumbass plan to remake DC to go with his "arch". He's shown he'll take down memorials to fallen soldiers, if they let him, he'd probably take down all the memorials in DC. But if we can't stop what he's doing to innocent people in Minnesota, across the country, and around the world, the monuments and the Kennedy center don't mean anything.
LuminoZero
"A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Alone, symbols are meaningless, but with enough people behind it, blowing up a building can change the world." -V for Vendetta
PaperinoVB
Distraction from Trumpstein files and what they contain. And from what has been erased, redacted, not yet released and so on.
TheTojo15
I don’t care how much money it wastes. The next president (granted we get one) should tear down all he’s having built. Revert it to its original state. Erase this fucker from the annals.
“But we need to learn from history or else we repeat it”
We don’t have a good track record of learning jack shit from history. He’s so fucking vain that it might loosen the blood clot
ChrisCorona
I don't disagree, but the problem is: There are scores of billionaires willing to fund Trump's vanity projects because he in turn will grant them concessions, pardons, and other perks worth well more than what they donated. Folks on the other side generally don't cater to that kind of graft/bribery. So how would the tear downs be funded? Not fair to make Americans pay.
TheTojo15
You’re right. It isn’t fair to force every citizen to pitch in for the tear down. Crowd funding it might work, with how much people hate the shit stain
michiyl
Think of the Lincoln Memorial, but with Shitface grinning down on you
BlackMoira
/s You mean the Donald J Trump and lincoln memorial? https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/06/12/trump-claims-hes-done-more-for-blacks-than-any-president-besides-lincoln/
noReallyIamPrincessBob
When he is gone, if normal people ever regain control, you should tear down EVERYTHING he builds. In fact, it would be better if he is still alive to see everything being destroyed.
spangolio
nothing about him being alive would be better. his lessons, or suffering, are irrelevant, just get him in the fucking dirt ASAP.
Sixsystems
I agree with you both, I want him gone, but I would also like him to suffer along the way.
spangolio
like, a full wall mirror and no toilet...and glitched phrases of his speeches playing randomly? and bugs.
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
No one wants to perform at the Kennedy Center after he smeared his name on it, so now he's punishing the building and trying to change the narrative. And of course he only wants his name on the renovated building, no one else's. The trump center, the trump arch, the trump ballroom. He wants to permanently stamp his brand on DC in a way that is too costly for future administrations to tear down.
adiving
Volunteers would line up for blocks to tear down anything with his name on it. Could probably even make bank on it.
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
Selling pieces, like some entrepreneurs did with the Berlin wall
justfillingthespace
Once he's gone, he will be the greatest modern example of Damnatio Memoriae.
UmmonPrime
I don't want us to forget he existed. We need to remember our history, boils and all. A reminder on how not to do things.
DangerBaer
He needs to remain as a reminder for us to never let anyone like him near power again.
TyrannusEquus
Gibbet, after dipping in clear resin or suitable plastics.
SecretAgentSuperBooger
vizeroy42
Still only did it not even half as good as the aliens in independence day. But even then, the MAGAts would cheer.
MechKelly
Flying American flags makes it look so much worse.
orp0piru
The East Wing didn't kill itself.
bdhurley268710
Idiocracy has become a documentary...
BlueDsc
No, the President in Idiocracy is leagues ahead of the Rapist in Chief. He put a person smarter than him in charge of a problem, and when he made a mistake later on he owned up to it when shown he was wrong.
Felderburg
Idiocracy *starts* with a Trump presidency.
Scobragon
Everything he puts his name on fails, like one of his casinos.
Zergele
Almost acts like a curse, don't it.
conklin5
Just like his sons.
PaperinoVB
Two casinos, AFAIK.
TheGermanWhoHatesAmerica
and a University
Scobragon
Well, yeah... All of them.
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
If there is any solice to be had, the site access is limited and not within a secured government perimeter. Hemmed in by I-66 and the Potomac river, F Street is the only way in. This could be easily blocked by a few hundred determined protestors.
Felderburg
It looks like 25th would also need to be blocked?
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
fair enough. i guess i was refering to this confluence. not a lot of territory needed to really fuck up somebodies plan.
DasBeaker
Is it bad that I only know this area because of Division 2?
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
Is it bad that TIL there is a video game called Division 2 ?
DasBeaker
I mean if your not in to looter shooters and Tom Clancy id give you a pass lol
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
i'm more of a donkey kong and douglas adams sort of person
KR1570F
Republican voters have decided to literally shit on anything too complex for them to understand. That's why they voted trump into office. He is a turd that fills his pants with turds while turning the country into turds. Shitception
razorsharpdoubleedgedlegaldualmindblades
Refusing to engage in complexity is like the main thing about being a conservative voter.
boognish115
We need to just start WW3 already so everyday Americans can get their aggressive rocks off with a military draft.
earthtokelly127001
That’s why the new Maga mascot is Poopsie.
Stinkybuttpants
Please god, or satan or tooth fairy, give this slob a heart attack….. and make it painful…
BananaForScaIe
There's some weird fuck the libs here but I'm too exhausted to find it.
BeaverOnFire
eathotdog
So are they, we let the dumbest fucks in this country make decisions and now every time we call them out for being dumbfucks they go "you better stop making fun of me or im gonna dumb fuck even harder.
Perkunas687
Sounds like he's a dirty dirty shisno.
SecretAgentSuperBooger
BillyM00n
It sucks how accurate this is. +1
Zammurkele
Bollramm
This is so true!
Trump is only the 3rd stage of a sickness that lies so deep and rotten inside every institution.
He's only a symptom not the sickness.
And it will get worse if the cancer is not removed if that is still possible at all.
IncognitoEnthusiast
And a good amount of Dem voters who chose to note vote for some assign reason.
aayla1023
asinine?
IncognitoEnthusiast
on mobile, autocorrect got me
KR1570F
Ass is a nine, I think they meant
earthtokelly127001
That’s pretty good.