{"id":528163,"date":"2026-03-17T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528163\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:58:10","slug":"trump-shares-renderings-of-highly-improved-kennedy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528163\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump shares renderings of \u201chighly improved\u201d Kennedy Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump<\/a> has shared<\/a> preliminary renderings of his vision for the Kennedy Center\u2014the Washington, D.C.<\/a> performing arts center designed by midcentury modernist Edward Durell Stone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Truth Social, Trump said the center will be like \u201cnew\u201d and \u201chighly improved\u201d although, judging from the renderings, the building appears virtually the same as it stands now.<\/p>\n

Trump posted the renderings Friday, March 13. The next day, March 14, a U.S. District Judge ordered<\/a> the White House to hand over its plans for the Kennedy Center to Ohio Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, who is suing Trump for closing the building and renaming it after himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Sunday, March 15, Congresswoman Beatty said in a statement that she received the White House\u2019s Kennedy Center plans. The Congresswoman however declared that the submittals were \u201cinadequate<\/a>\u201d and that \u201cthere is absolutely no basis to shutter this precious living memorial and beloved institution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"backThe rear exterior also appears to remain in tact. (Via Truth Social)<\/p>\n

Congresswoman Beatty serves as an ex-officio on the Kennedy Center\u2019s board. \u201cWe called Donald Trump\u2019s bluff, and the results are in,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt certainly looks like President Trump is shutting down the Center because he is embarrassed that ticket sales are down and artists are fleeing since his illegal renaming. I\u2019m not letting him get away with it \u2013 we\u2019re holding him accountable,\u201d the statement<\/a> continued.<\/p>\n

Trump announced in early February<\/a> the Kennedy Center would close for two years starting July 4, 2026. He said in the Oval Office on February 2 that \u201cI\u2019ll be using the steel\u201d and \u201cwe\u2019re using the structure\u201d of the Kennedy Center, to assure reporters it wouldn\u2019t be a full teardown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re using some of the marble, and some of the marble comes down, but when it\u2019s open, it\u2019ll be brand new and really beautiful,\u201d Trump said, in describing the $200 million renovation project. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have all brand-new air conditioning, heating.\u201d<\/p>\n

An architect for the Kennedy Center renovation project has not been named publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump has shared preliminary renderings of his vision for the Kennedy Center\u2014the Washington, D.C. performing arts center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-528163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528163","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=528163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}