{"id":77914,"date":"2026-08-26T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/trump-administration-threatens-to-demolish-kennedy-center\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T06:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:55:02","slug":"trump-administration-threatens-to-demolish-kennedy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/trump-administration-threatens-to-demolish-kennedy-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Threatens to Demolish Kennedy Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new court filing, the Trump administration is, for the first time, threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., if the landmark is not allowed to close for two years for renovations. This comes amid the ongoing legal battle over adding President Trump\u2019s name to the building. NBC\u2019s Gabe Gutierrez reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new court filing, the Trump administration is, for the first time, threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., if the landmark is not allowed to close for two years for renovations. This comes amid the ongoing legal battle over adding President Trump\u2019s name to the building. NBC\u2019s Gabe Gutierrez reports &#8230; <a title=\"Trump Administration Threatens to Demolish Kennedy Center\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/trump-administration-threatens-to-demolish-kennedy-center\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump Administration Threatens to Demolish Kennedy Center\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}