"The president announced on Truth Social that the recently renamed center will close on July 4 for two full years of renovations. No better way to celebrate 250 years as a nation than by shutting down our center for the performing arts! Most high schools, given the opportunity to shut down their performing-arts departments, don't view it as an exciting, patriotic celebration, and prefer to have a bake sale."
"(If you remember that John Adams note about how to commemorate the Fourth of July, right after "fireworks," he suggested "or making it difficult, if not impossible, for people to see Opera, Ballet, Symphonic Performances, Touring Productions of Broadway Musicals, and Sometimes Shen Yun.") Everywhere you look in Washington, D.C., buildings are getting their names rejiggered (the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace), their wings clipped (RIP East Wing of the White House), or both."
"And of course, we must not forget the Triumphal Arch-a possibly 250-foot-tall edifice (One foot for each year! We'd better hope the country doesn't go on much longer!) that, when complete, will reportedly dwarf the Lincoln Memorial. Is any building safe? I fear it's only a matter of time before the inevitable Donald J. Trump AND is slapped on every marquee-but what happens after that?"
The president announced on Truth Social that the recently renamed Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts will close on July 4 for two years of renovations. Numerous Washington, D.C., buildings are being retitled or altered, including proposals like the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, loss of the East Wing of the White House, and a 250-foot Triumphal Arch that would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial. Further speculation includes adding Trump's name to the Washington National Cathedral, replacing stained-glass windows, and substituting interior carvings, implying broad architectural and cultural transformations.
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