Trump Says Kennedy Center Will Close for Two Years

President Trump said the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will close for two years for renovations, a move he said would turn the venerated national cultural institution into a “new and spectacular Entertainment Complex,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Trump said the Kennedy Center will close on July 4 of this year, a date that coincides with the country’s 250th birthday, and said that the financing for the renovation is “completed, and fully in place.”

The move comes as the center has struggled to fill seats, and some artists have canceled performances.