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The Kennedy Center is in a “financial and structural death spiral.” Those aren’t President Trump’s words. That’s the assessment of DOJ lawyers in a federal court filing Tuesday, explaining what happens to a building Democrats spent years letting deteriorate while fighting any attempt to fix it “because muh Trump.” The filing warned that without a two-year renovation closure, the building will continue deteriorating “into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down.”
Democrats erupted. Rep. Joyce Beatty — who sued to block the renovation in the first place — called it “a not-so-subtle threat to demolish the Kennedy Center if the President doesn’t get his way.” Her attorney called it “unconscionable.”
Here’s the part Democrats don’t want you thinking about: they created this situation. The building was allowed to deteriorate under Democratic stewardship. Millions in financial losses accumulated. The structural problems that now require two years to fix didn’t appear overnight — they accumulated over years of deferred maintenance on a building that Democrat-aligned leadership treated as a political asset rather than a performance venue with actual maintenance needs.
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