The court thwarted Donald Trump's plans. The reason is the Kennedy Center. The president is furious
This is how the court thwarted Donald Trump's plans. It was about the Kennedy Center
On Friday, Judge Christopher Cooper decided that the name of the current US president must disappear from the building's facade, calling the attempt to change the name of the center to the “Trump Kennedy Center” illegal. He gave it two weeks. Judge Cooper explained that the attempt to change it was illegal because the name was written in the act of Congress that established the center and only Congress can change it.
In a separate but related decision, a judge decided to grant board member Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty's request to temporarily halt the board's plans to close the hall for two years for renovations.
Donald Trump furious with the court's decision. “He should be ashamed of himself”
Donald Trump called the court's decision “shocking.”
He should be ashamed of himself
— these were the words he said to the judge.
He also announced that he wanted to transfer supervision and control over the facility to Congress, so that congressmen could decide “what to do with it.”
Unless I have complete freedom to do what I can do better than anyone else – bring this institution back to life physically, financially and artistically – I have no interest in continuing on what could only be a hopeless journey to NEVERLAND.
– declared the US president.
Since Donald Trump took personal supervision of the Kennedy Center, the facility has been struggling with a wave of boycotts from performing artists and waning audience interest. According to the US president, it is “tattered, dilapidated and dilapidated.” Therefore, in February this year announced that the facility, which opened in 1971, would close on July 4, precisely on the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. The construction of a new entertainment complex was to begin then. Donald Trump announced that the work would take about two years and lead to the creation of “the best performing arts facility of this type in the world.”
