Trump administration threatens to demolish Kennedy Center if renovations are blocked

The Kennedy Center’s finances have delivered conservatives inconvenient vindication—turn a product into a political loyalty test, and some customers will decide they can live without it.

The battle over the Kennedy Center's future escalated Thursday as Trump's allies on the board took new steps to commemorate him

The filing makes a dramatic twist in the monthslong saga to renovate the historic arts institution, which has faced multiple legal challenges and criticism from Democrats, musicians and members of the Kennedy family.

Security keeps watch at the main entrance to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on a day when the center's board voted to inscribe onto the building “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump”, in Washington, DC, on August 13.