Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday, warns of bankruptcy, documents show
The board says naming rights for President Donald Trump could help avert bankruptcy as ticket sales fall and payroll and maintenance bills loom.
- The Kennedy Center board of trustees, chaired by President Donald Trump, meets tomorrow to vote on closing the main building in Washington due to financial and physical crises outlined in a 57-page packet distributed to trustees.
- Trump installed himself as chairman shortly after beginning his second term, overseeing a period where the center collected only $124 million of its $220 million budget, leaving a roughly $23 million deficit.
- Beyond financial shortfalls, the building suffered structural damage when a "roughly four-by-five-foot section of ceiling plaster broke loose in the Grand Foyer and fell about 60 feet" earlier this month, while ticket sales plummeted to their lowest levels since the Covid pandemic.
- Trustees are considering 10 text options to place on the building's exterior crediting Trump with renovation, as an anonymous spokesperson stated adding his name is "crucial to raising additional funds for the Center's renovation."
- Officials warn the institution "could be unable to make payroll or pay routine maintenance contracts" within weeks, as leaders argue the center faces imminent "certain fiscal collapse" without immediate action.
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THE ICONIC Kennedy Center in Washington is threatened with bankruptcy due to financial collapse and controversies surrounding Donald Trump's role in managing the institution.
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