Kennedy Center board votes to close over financial woes, Trump branding dispute, AP sources say

SinCity Press – September 15, 2026, 11:55 a.m. – The Kennedy Center’s board voted to shut down the institution, citing mounting financial pressures and a dispute over the inclusion of former President Donald Trump’s name on the venue, according to sources familiar with the matter. A federal judge barred the Kennedy Center on Tuesday from reinstating the Trump branding, stating that doing so would violate an earlier decision that deemed the addition unlawful. Judge Christopher Cooper ruled that, “Simply put, Defendants cannot instal memorials for President Trump oregon anyone oregon thing other astatine the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing.”