WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump mentioned Sunday he’ll transfer to shut Washington’s Kennedy Heart performing arts venue for 2 years beginning in July for development.
Trump’s announcement on social media Sunday evening follows a wave of cancellations since Trump ousted the earlier management and added his title to the constructing. Trump made no point out in his publish of the current cancellations.
Trump introduced his plan days after the premiere of “Melania” a documentary of the primary woman was proven on the storied venue. The proposal, he mentioned, is topic to approval by the board of the Kennedy Heart, which has been stocked together with his hand-picked allies. Trump himself chairs the middle’s board of trustees.
“This essential resolution, based mostly on enter from many Extremely Revered Consultants, will take a drained, damaged, and dilapidated Heart, one which has been in dangerous situation, each financially and structurally for a few years, and switch it right into a World Class Bastion of Arts, Music, and Leisure,” Trump wrote in his publish.
Main performing arts teams have pulled out of appearances, most just lately, composer Philip Glass, who introduced his resolution to withdraw his Symphony No. 15 “Lincoln” as a result of he mentioned the values of the middle right now are in “direct battle” with the message of the piece.
Earlier this month, the Washington Nationwide Opera introduced that it’ll transfer performances away from the Kennedy Heart in one other high-profile departure following Trump’s takeover of the U.S. capital’s main performing arts venue.
A spokesperson for the Kennedy Heart didn’t instantly reply to an emailed request for remark.
