US President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to keep the Kennedy Center closed for good after a judge ruled his name cannot be added onto the famed arts institution’s facade.
Cooper on Tuesday said that plan was in violation of his previous ruling. “If the ruling is a negative one, which it should not be, and is not overturned by the U.S. Shortly after beginning his second term, Republican Trump installed himself as chairman of the center, which is named in honor of late president John F. Last month, the board moved forward with a plan to add a new signage on the building that would read “renovated and restored by President Donald J. Trump.
Kennedy, a Democrat who championed civil rights before he was assassinated in 1963.
Trump said his hand-picked board voted “almost unanimously” to shut the venue immediately for emergency renovations, just a few hours after the federal judge’s decision. Supreme Court, the Reconstruction and the Renovation of The Kennedy Center will not take place,” Trump said on his Truth Social network. The Kennedy Center said in a statement to AFP that the board’s decision “reflects sound judgment and a clear prioritization of safety above all else. “Simply put,” wrote Cooper in his decision, the board “cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing.
