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Kennedy Center shutdown covering up bigger mess triggered by Trump: lawyer
People hold hands at a protest to denounce the Kennedy Center board’s vote to close one of the nation’s premier performing arts venues, outside the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., US, September 18, 2026. REUTERS/Leah Millis
The Kennedy Center as a Presidential Vanity Project
The President Holds the Power
The Kennedy Center dispute is not fundamentally about branding or arts administration. It is about a president using control over a national institution to pursue personal commemoration—and invoking closure or demolition when the law obstructs him…
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