After Trump politicized the Kennedy Center by illegally putting his name on it, the organization experienced a $100 million decline in revenue as audiences and donors declined to support it.
The Trump cronies on the board kept this information from the public:
https://archive.is/qAgWB
After running the Center into the ground financially, the board is now threatening to completely demolish the entire building unless it's allowed to deface it with his name: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972.68.0.pdf
Matthew Sheffield
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