{"id":2263044,"date":"2026-02-02T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2263044"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:34:03","slug":"trump-announces-kennedy-center-will-close-july-4th-for-two-years-for-construction-of-the-new-and-spectacular-entertainment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/trump-announces-kennedy-center-will-close-july-4th-for-two-years-for-construction-of-the-new-and-spectacular-entertainment-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces Kennedy Center will Close July 4th for Two Years for \u201cConstruction of the new and spectacular Entertainment Complex.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-337649\">\n<header class=\"mt-5\">\n<p>\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/category\/federal-government\/\" class=\"block px-4 no-underline mb-4 text-sans text-md font-sans font-semibold text-posts\">Federal Government\t\t<span class=\"block border-b-2 w-10 border-posts\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"px-4\">\n<p>\n\t<time class=\"text-sm block font-sans text-midnight leading-21 proportional-nums\" datetime=\"2026-02-02T09:05:38-05:00\"><br \/>\n\t\tPublished February 2, 2026 at 9:05AM\t<\/time>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content pt-6 px-4 content-post\">\n<p><br \/><em>photo by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/derberzerker\/40711975505\/in\/photolist-252zvWa-2rMN2Pr-2dGbZq2-CYFgP9-2mZXdPw-2qy6Dqn-2n1xd8s-2nfVPs2-2mZXdHz-2n1vWiH-2kzcF2V-2n1xdar-2m9srGs-2djDFh6-2nVgNei-RQEbc4-xwyeVX-2kbZkDa-2kzcF1Y-2mZVynn-2n8pig1-2mZZwrJ-2ik1JTu-2i5BPMX-2rMPRwx-2ijCFUB-2n1vuwF-SjopAy-2jgdSH7-2pi3E7j-2ofhK8p-Yb2N44-2qy6zhg-2pYhSx6-2qzVPmd-2ogTcdH-2g75Wmj-TsMnKY-2pYAKbU-2iUaEaZ-2i59rSu-2kmCJt5-2g75VDC-2rMBiL9-isEKUb-2pXQ4cr-2n15RZT-2kmyUpx-2o2Kk8Z-2ndeSjU\" target=\"_blank\">Olaf Zerbock<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>celebrity.land <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/01\/politics\/kennedy-center-trump-close\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will close for roughly two years to allow for extensive renovations, President Donald Trump said Sunday, a move that comes as the nation\u2019s preeminent arts institution contends with a flood of cancellations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read Trump\u2019s full announcement from Sunday:<span id=\"more-337649\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-337651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/trump-note-closing-kennedy-reno.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/trump-note-closing-kennedy-reno.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.popville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/trump-note-closing-kennedy-reno-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.popville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/trump-note-closing-kennedy-reno-600x545.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.popville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/trump-note-closing-kennedy-reno-768x698.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.popville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/trump-note-closing-kennedy-reno-730x663.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let\u2019s hope the Kennedy Center 2 year renovation is not \u00e0 la east wing \u201crenovation\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Note: That feels like appropriately a million years ago. It was October\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PoPville (@PoPville) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoPville\/status\/2018131698286792874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<hr class=\"border-accent border-b-2 w-10 mx-auto mt-10 mb-8\"\/>\n\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\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 www.popville.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Government Published February 2, 2026 at 9:05AM photo by Olaf Zerbock celebrity.land reported: \u201cThe Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will close for roughly two years to allow for extensive renovations, President Donald Trump said Sunday, a move that comes as the nation\u2019s preeminent arts institution contends with a flood of cancellations.\u201d Read Trump\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2263045,"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-2263044","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\/Trump-announces-Kennedy-Center-will-Close-July-4th-for-Two.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263044","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=2263044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263046,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263044\/revisions\/2263046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}