{"id":45665,"date":"2026-02-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=45665"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:13:18","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-kennedy-center-to-close-for-two-years-for-renovations-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=45665","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019: Kennedy Center to close for two years for renovations, \u2018Trump says\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Trump_Kennedy_Center_sign_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trump_Kennedy_Center_sign_02-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trump_Kennedy_Center_sign_02-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trump_Kennedy_Center_sign_02-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trump_Kennedy_Center_sign_02-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trump_Kennedy_Center_sign_02-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trump_Kennedy_Center_sign_02.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-4ed22a5cf4b7a9958461a6e72b766383\"><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Trump_Kennedy_Center_sign_02.jpg\">Trump Kennedy Center Sign, by Dclemens1971, CC-BY-4.0 via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018\u2026 in honour of the 250th Anniversary of our Country\u2019 US President Donald Trump has announced The Kennedy Center in Washington DC will close for a two-year renovation, beginning in July, reports BBC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday that the centre would close on 4 July this year \u2018in honour of the 250th Anniversary of our Country\u2019. The move follows several artists cancelling performances at the storied institution after it was recently renamed as the Trump Kennedy Center\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 The centre was named in Kennedy&#8217;s memory shortly after his assassination. Joe Kennedy III\u2026 said the venue was \u2018a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c1ev53zyww2o\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Trump Kennedy Center Sign, by Dclemens1971, CC-BY-4.0 via Wikimedia Commons \u2018\u2026 in honour of the 250th Anniversary of our Country\u2019 US President Donald Trump has announced The Kennedy Center in Washington DC will close for a two-year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=45665\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,9,29],"class_list":["post-45665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-government","tag-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45710,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45665\/revisions\/45710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}