meanwhile 200 million could help a lot of Americans.

is an overwhelming application of gold tinsel from Home Depot after it's been vomited up by Russian hookers and fermented inside Donald's diapers for two weeks exactly.

where his statue can piss down the neck of visitors.

What a legacy he's carving for his firm. "We're the Architects who facilitated Trump's vision."

I say bury this fucker in a garbage bag!! and dump him in a active volcano, so he's ready for HELL!!!

President Kennedy out of there before he bulldozes it. My heart would be broken if he destroyed it, but I'm sure that's on his radar.

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and the interior architecture that makes it so special. I hate him.

Will be removal of everything mentioning or showing Kennedy and replacing it with a shrine glorifying Trump.

As a college student in Alabama in the 1960's I marched in Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham. Since then I have marched an supported those who marched in all sorts of demonstrations.

As far as I know, you don't have to have a ticket to get into the Kennedy Center but you do have to have tickets to get into a performance.

So -- what would happen in, say, March, if one casual Saturday or Sunday afternoon hundreds of "tourists" started showing up -- in small groups of 2, 3, 4 ,6 ,7 -- each with a backpack or tote bag (with bottled water and sandwiches) and once inside EVERYONE SITS DOWN AND REFUSES TO LEAVE. Hundreds more could sit on the stairs, occupy the lawn, block the garage entrances and refuse to move.

We were told when marching in Alabama to "go limp." Don't move, just lie down and go limp. Make them pick you up. I know from experience it takes four cops to move one person.

No doubt the demonstrators would be removed by DC police or National Guard.

But what it if kept up? Crowds showing up every day, surround the place, allow no vehicles to enter . . . .

Probably not happen but surely someone here on DU has the contacts to make this happen.

We are in our 80s, we live 45 minutes out of DC, our daughter lives on Capitol Hill, we can bunk with her -- she's a high-powered DC attorney so she can get a lot of us out of jail.

Just sayin'.

Or what if a few old, grey-haired couples pulled this stunt? Would hundreds or thousands take the hint and descend on the Kennedy Center an save the place?

Why isn't Congress stopping this? The GOP is always railing about Dems wasting money but not a peep about Dump's egregious spending for no good reason.

we can't spend any of our tax dollars to help people afford healthcare and their meds... or help everyone afford food now that the tariffs have screwed us all... but we're so awash in OUR money that he feels free to kill the WH East Wing, renovate the Kennedy Center, AND built a huge ass Hitler-arch to himself. Kennedy Center says $200M... the East Wing is way above that... and by the time they get the gold plating onto that stupid arch (you KNOW he's gonna want that!), he will have absolutely bankrupted the country just to leave his name all over the trash in the city. It'll cost at least that much and twice more to tear it down and rebuild our institutions reflecting grace and good trash. I'm so tired of his gilt-loaded white trash ideas.

If he's going to spend all this money on everything I don't agree with... then, I'm gonna do a MAGA and scream for MY tax dollars back to me to spend as I see fit. I'm not giving him a wink and nod with my money to kill people via ICE, or put out complete surveillance teams on everyone in the U.S., ala Musk. Enough is enough. Cut off his money. If he wants shit, HE can pay for it (if he actually has any liquid assets, that is).

The Kennedy family and certainly Maria Shriver alone has more than enough money and connections to do to Trump exactly what he always tries to do to everyone else, sue, sue, sue. So why haven't they done exactly that yet? I know they don't own the center but the public does and since they are part of the public they should pile on the lawsuits on him. They can slow this insanity down until he is gone or until he decides he's bored with it. Just constantly letting him come up with these idiotic plans and saying "You can't do that!" doesn't do anything. Use his own methods against him.

At least it will keep Dump in the bad spotlight.

Along with every other pestilence

But you can’t kill an idea and the spirit of the memorial will live on somehow some way.

I don't recall previous Presidents interfering with DC infrastructure.

Pallets of cash that years from now will be "where did it go?"

Every penny needs to be recovered, to include the cost of returning things to their previous state.

Since he lies all the time, and claimed he wouldn't touch the east wing, yet he detroyed it, he may indeed be planning to tear it down.

He will not "keep the structure". He will demolish it.

It won't cost $200M. It will be double that, at least.

He will have his name carved in marble on a structurally necessary wall, so that it will be harder to remove it, unlike the current lettering.

Seriously?

No one in this country has any balls.

how this will look after those "renovations". All tacky and over the top and ugly as hell. And I am sure the concert halls will all be named after Trump and his family.

In 1980, this lying sack of shit common hooligan bought the Bonwit Teller Building, saying he was gonna preserve the gorgeous Art Deco panels on the front. He did not. He had his crew throw them in the skip, rather than give the to the Met. Cheap trashy bastard DESTROYED art and LIED about it. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/donald-trump-bonwit-teller-friezes-met-2132673

I have a really bad feeling about this... and I don't even particularly like the style of the Kennedy Center. I think it's a bit naf, really - very 1960s, which is not my favorite decade. But it IS A NATIONAL TREASURE and does not need any cheap tacky gold plating, FFS. He's going to destroy it - and blow his budget - mark my words.

Why can't this mouth breathing buffoon be impeached and slung out on his ass??? JD is horrible, but at least all he'd do is install a couch.

It doesn’t need any renovations or work by a man who is illegally occupying the White House
after a dirty election.