{"id":444167,"date":"2026-02-02T06:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444167\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T06:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:12:12","slug":"trump-plans-to-shut-down-kennedy-centre-for-2-years-for-renovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444167\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump plans to shut down Kennedy Centre for 2 years for renovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump said \u200don Sunday he planned to close the John F. Kennedy Memorial Centre for the Performing Arts for two years for reconstruction starting in July.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The national arts and entertainment centre in Washington has been marked by turmoil in recent months following Trump\u2019s appointment of himself as chairman, his push to change the organisation\u2019s focus, plans for reconstruction, \u2060and the board\u2019s addition of his name to the institution.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Under Trump\u2019s plan, the centre would close on July 4, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass \u200danything that has taken place with respect to such a Facility before,\u201d Trump wrote on the social media platform Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Kennedy Centre in Washington. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ea64ce74-fc6b-4b75-ab1d-de6d03363984_dec4ef7d.jpg\" title=\"The Kennedy Centre in Washington. Photo: AP\"\/>The Kennedy Centre in Washington. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump\u2019s announcement came days after the premiere of Melania, a documentary of the US first lady was shown at the centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said \u200don Sunday he planned to close the John F. Kennedy Memorial Centre for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[84190,23,1340,49458,4515,1072,133249,5615,28030,208911,208912,55939,208913,3,205447,34666,4637,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-444167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-america","tag-congress","tag-declaration-of-independence","tag-democrats","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-east-wing","tag-hamilton","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-john-f-kennedy-memorial-centre","tag-kennedy-centre-honours","tag-maria-shriver","tag-martha-graham-dance-company","tag-news","tag-philip-glass","tag-the-washington-post","tag-truth-social","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}