{"id":78877,"date":"2026-09-18T23:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/thousands-protest-closure-of-the-kennedy-center-amid-fears-trump-is-set-to-demolish-the-institution\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T23:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:54:58","slug":"thousands-protest-closure-of-the-kennedy-center-amid-fears-trump-is-set-to-demolish-the-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/thousands-protest-closure-of-the-kennedy-center-amid-fears-trump-is-set-to-demolish-the-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands protest closure of the Kennedy Center amid fears Trump is set to demolish the institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators gathered outside the building in Washington, after the president was spotted holding a placard that read: \u2018Kennedy Center DEMOLIS &#8230;\u2019<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening thousands of protesters gathered outside the Kennedy Center in view of the marble facade that remained concealed by scaffolding and tarpaulins, to protest Donald Trump\u2019s plans for the facility and express alarm that he might make good on his threat to tear down the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Crowding streets in the Foggy Bottom area of Washington and locking down traffic as they walked, many carried signs, as they joined in the \u201cHands Around the Kennedy Center\u201d protest. Some wore costumes and booed when the president was mentioned during the program.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/19\/thousands-protest-closure-of-the-kennedy-center-amid-fears-trump-is-set-to-demolish-the-institution\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators gathered outside the building in Washington, after the president was spotted holding a placard that read: \u2018Kennedy Center DEMOLIS &#8230;\u2019 On Friday evening thousands of protesters gathered outside the Kennedy Center in view of the marble facade that remained concealed by scaffolding and tarpaulins, to protest Donald Trump\u2019s plans for the facility and express &#8230; <a title=\"Thousands protest closure of the Kennedy Center amid fears Trump is set to demolish the institution\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/thousands-protest-closure-of-the-kennedy-center-amid-fears-trump-is-set-to-demolish-the-institution\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Thousands protest closure of the Kennedy Center amid fears Trump is set to demolish the institution\">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-78877","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\/78877","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=78877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}