(Photos via: @TKCOfficial on X)
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in really bad shape, according to the Kennedy Center’s official X account, which posted a series of pictures and a video on Saturday showing damage inside the building after recent storms in Washington, D.C.
The images showed a hole in the ceiling and debris and broken wood littering the red carpet in the entryway to the building, according to the pictures and video posted on X. A single yellow cone reading “Caution: Wet Floor” was placed on the carpet.
“Another warning we can’t ignore. A section of the Grand Foyer ceiling collapsed after this week’s storms. Thankfully no one was hurt,” the Kennedy Center posted. “Decades of deferred maintenance made this inevitable.”
The center closed due to the damage, which the facility claimed proved President Donald Trump’s claim that the center needs to be shut down and revamped.
“Chairman President Trump has been right: America’s cultural center needs to close, renovate, and be restored—now.”
A Kennedy Center spokesperson told PBS no one was hurt by the collapsed ceiling, but reiterated it proved Trump was right about the need to renovate.
“This structural failure stems from decades of neglect and deferred maintenance by the previous leadership, and there’s no justification for further delays in restoring America’s cultural center,” Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi told the outlet.
The center named by Congress in honor of President John F. Kennedy has been in legal and operational limbo ever since Trump announced he was adding his name to the building late last year.
The X post comes amid an ongoing legal battle between the Kennedy Center board — which has been stacked with Trump loyalists, including the president, who appointed himself to the group — and board member Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), who sued in December to challenge what she called the center’s “illegal renaming” after Trump put his name on the outside of the building.
In February, Trump announced a plan to shutter the building for two years while it underwent a $250 million renovation — but both moves have been hit with a series of legal challenges.
Justice Department attorneys have argued the building is so “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing” it may need to be demolished if Trump’s renovation is blocked in court.
And the president last week posted the “old and decrepit” center badly needs improvements so it can “attain greatness and prestige,” after it has been “losing a fortune” for years.
The post Kennedy Center Fires Back at Critics with Video of Damaged Ceiling: ‘Warning We Can’t Ignore’ first appeared on Mediaite.
Kennedy Center Fires Back at Critics with Video of Damaged Ceiling: ‘Warning We Can’t Ignore’ 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-09-05 20:14:59 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law
БЪЛГАРИЯ НОВИНИТЕ – ИНФОРМАЦИОННА АГЕНЦИЯ 2009-2026 2026-09-05 20:14:59
Leave a Comment