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Judge Orders 30-Day Notice Before Kennedy Center Demolition

Is this a stealth move to demolish a national landmark, or just overdue safety repairs?

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Judge Orders 30-Day Notice Before Kennedy Center Demolition

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Above: Kayakers on the Potomac River protested the Trump Administration's management of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 17. Image credit: Andrew Leyden/Getty Images

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Anti-Trump narrative

Shutting the Kennedy Center overnight, with fences up and a "DEMOLISHED" poster on Air Force One, reeks of a scheme to bulldoze a national memorial before any court can stop it. A safety inspection doesn't require locking the public out of a monument Congress created and funded. The 30-day notice order is the bare minimum needed to keep one man's ego from leveling a landmark.

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Pro-Trump narrative

Plaster crashing 60 feet from the Grand Foyer ceiling and corroded structural steel are real hazards, and closing the building for a week to inspect them is a basic responsibility. Decades of deferred maintenance left this place rotting, and the people finally paying to fix it get dragged into court for it.

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