Trump Ran the Kennedy Center Into the Ground

“In the 19 months since President Trump took over the Kennedy Center, the institution has borrowed everything its bank would lend it, dipped into money donors had given on condition it never be spent, and written off pledges from supporters who stopped paying,” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump said the center was ‘losing hundreds of millions of dollars’ when he took over, and his board has warned of ‘bankruptcy.'”

“It is true that when Trump took over, the center was in worse shape than it was in 2021, when it was flush with pandemic relief funds. But the old leadership handed over an institution that was better off financially than in most years before Covid.”