Donald Trump’s hand-picked board has voted to close the Kennedy Center immediately, according to NBC News, on the heels of a judge’s order keeping Trump’s name off of the building.
On Tuesday morning, Federal District Court Judge Christopher Cooper ruled that Trump’s name could not be inscribed on the outside of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after the board’s latest attempt to work around the judge’s previous order.
Shortly after that decision, NBC broke the news of the Kennedy Center Board’s vote:
President Donald Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center board voted Tuesday to immediately shutter the performing arts center, a source familiar with the decision said, after its members argued the institution is in “dire” financial and structural shape.
The report goes on to say that Trump presided over the meeting virtually, as chairman:
Attorneys for the board have said the legal action has kept them from doing necessary repairs, but the judge presiding over the case noted at a hearing Tuesday — as he had previously — that his earlier order preventing full closure allowed for emergency repairs.
Trump, the board’s chairman, joined the closed-door meeting virtually and spent several minutes criticizing both Beatty and the judge who blocked his name from being added to the façade, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
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He's a scumbag, plain and simple.
Can you imagine having an ego so large and fragile that if you don’t get your way in putting your name on a beloved cultural institution that memorializes a beloved fallen president, you’d close it down in a fit of infantile rage? Ladies and gentlemen, meet Donald Trump, the worst and most dangerous president in the history of our country who doesn’t know or appreciate culture of any kind other than the green muck growing in his fetid reflecting pool. Woe is us.