Cover up by reconstruction

 

Donald Trump decided to close the Kennedy Center he named after himself for 2 years, basically because nobody wants to play the venue he named after himself.

Here are a couple of quotes about how it got to this point.

"On Sunday, Representative Chellie Pingree of Maine, the top Democrat on the House subcommittee that oversees funding for the Kennedy Center’s building, questioned the motivation for the planned closure in a video posted to social media, suggesting that the president was just “covering up the financial disaster he’s created there.”

" “This man has destroyed the place,” she said in the video. “He’s run it into the ground financially; he’s made it a place where performers don’t want to perform, and individuals don’t want to attend performances.”

"Norm Eisen and Nathaniel Zelinsky, representing groups that have sued the Kennedy Center on behalf of Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), said in a statement that Trump’s announcement “raises serious questions about whether his purpose isn’t to renovate but to shut the Center down to avoid further embarrassment” of artist and patron boycotts. They would consider “all legal remedies” to address the closure, they said."

And they're right.