‘Unconscionable’: Lawyers hit back after Trump admin suggests Kennedy Center could be demolished

Image: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. – between 1980 and 2006. Image credit: Photographer – Carol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division /Wikimedia Commons. No known restrictions on publication. Article by Alexander Mallin. ABC News – August 25, 2026.

The Justice Department suggested in a court filing Tuesday that the Kennedy Center could face demolition in the event a federal judge issues an order permanently blocking President Donald Trump’s push to renovate the facility with additions intended to recognize Trump personally. In an extraordinary filing that at times reads like a post from Trump’s social media platform, Brantley Mayers — a top official in DOJ’s Civil Division — argues the “decrepit” Kennedy Center faces an imminent “death spiral” without Trump’s intervention. […]

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