{"id":2261892,"date":"2026-02-02T01:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2261892"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:26:43","slug":"kennedy-center-to-cease-entertainment-operations-for-two-years-trump-says-the-mighty-790-kfgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kennedy-center-to-cease-entertainment-operations-for-two-years-trump-says-the-mighty-790-kfgo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center to cease entertainment operations for two years, Trump says | The Mighty 790 KFGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>By Greg Bensinger<\/p>\n<p>Feb 1 (Reuters) \u2013 The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts should not host any events for \u200dtwo years, starting on July 4, President Donald Trump posted on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on these findings, and totally subject to Board approval, I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center \u200cto the highest level of Success, \u200cBeauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass \u200banything that has taken place with respect to such a Facility before,\u201d Trump wrote on \u200dthe social media platform \u200bTruth Social.<\/p>\n<p>The arts and entertainment center, \u200bin Washington, has been marked by turmoil in recent \u200dmonths following Trump\u2019s appointment as chairman, his push to change the organization\u2019s focus, plans for reconstruction and the board\u2019s addition of his name to the institution.<\/p>\n<p>The center historically has hosted over \u200d2,000 events per year, according to the website, although many performers have pulled out of planned shows \u200dsince Trump\u2019s shakeup \u200dbegan.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who cancelled performances \u200bin recent months are a touring \u200bproduction \u2060of the musical \u201cHamilton,\u201d composer Philip Glass \u200cand actress Issa Rae.<\/p>\n<p>The Kennedy Center did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Greg Bensinger in San Francisco and Arriana McLymore in New York; Editing by Sergio Non, Chris Reese and \u2060Diane Craft)<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- #entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source kfgo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Bensinger Feb 1 (Reuters) \u2013 The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts should not host any events for \u200dtwo years, starting on July 4, President Donald Trump posted on Sunday. \u201cBased on these findings, and totally subject to Board approval, I have determined that the fastest way to bring The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2261804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kennedy-Center-to-cease-entertainment-operations-for-two-years-Trump.JPG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261893,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261892\/revisions\/2261893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2261804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}