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Given how thoroughly President Trump’s leadership has destroyed the Kennedy Center’s viability as a presenting organization, closing for two years is probably the best of a slew of bad options, The Post’s Philip Kennicott writes. https://wapo.st/4zi6A9V

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This proposed "renovation" is an excuse for Trump to glue his name back on JFK's monument. If it happens at all, we should expect it to be as successful as the "renovation" of the Reflecting Pool and East Wing and as tasteful as the Oval Office bedecked in superglued gold plastic cherubs.

The problem here is that the DC Cocktail Party Press, of which you are a chief part, tiptoe around the stupidity of everything Donald Trump suggests or does. It's as if it's all business as usual and you cover your asses by tsk-tsk-ing a bit about it.

The goal here is the same as in desecrating Bend National Park: to erase history, destroy connection, and break the hearts and spirits of their perceived enemies, Isis/Zionist-style.

A while back he was bragging that the seats would now have marble armrests. Sure, that would make the place both uglier and less comfortable, but it’s also EXPENSIVE and therefore BETTER! Ugh.

Just look at the hideous remodel Trump ordered for the Lincoln bathroom at the White House. It’s kind of amazing that someone could spend a lifetime in real estate and have such a hideous sense of interior design.

Our prez is famous for his non attendance at cultural events. He doesn’t go to theatre, concerts, or galleries other than in an official capacity. It does not appear that he watches movies or non-news TV much, or listen to music beyond a few favorite oldies. So why did he even want the Kennedy Ctr?

tRump is purposely removing our history and our monuments and our heroes because he knows we hate him and this is his way of giving us the finger. And meanwhile, apparently no one or institution can or will stop him. It’s a sad, dispiriting time.

The Kennedy family should just pull every piece of memorabilia that they have from this place. Then they should sue the board. Let the Trump family try and make something of it.. no one wants to do shows here any longer anyhow. Everything that man touches turns to shit.