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Kennedy Center board to propose new options for honoring Trump as center confronts solvency worries
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees is planning to propose adding President Donald Trump´s name to the facility´s exterior in recognition...
Received: 16:28:21 on 14th September 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees is planning to propose adding President Donald Trump´s name to the facility´s exterior in recognition of his saving the building from its "precarious fiscal position," according to a new court filing in a suit aimed at blocking the addition of his name to the building.
The filing made by Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, an ex-officio member of the board who´s led an effort to block Trump putting his name on the building, said she was alerting the court to the proposal because it could implicate a pending decision before the court.
"The Board understands that without such appropriate recognition it is unlikely that President Trump will provide the fundamental oversight of the renovation of the main building and lead the fiscal rescue of the Center," the board wrote in the proposed resolution.
The document proposes 10 options for adding the president´s name to the building´s exterior.