“不到1年内，特朗普平衡了预算，从捐赠者那里筹集了超过1.3亿美元，并从国会获得了2.57亿美元，”公共关系副总裁罗马·达拉维在发给福克斯新闻数字版的声明中说。”我们在财务上是稳定的，但大楼本身的状况仍然不佳。”
“几十年来的严重疏忽使这个机构陷入预算破裂、1亿美元运营赤字、2600万美元底线赤字以及2.5亿美元延期维护需求的困境，”她继续说道。
总统唐纳德·特朗普周日宣布该场馆将于7月4日关闭，这恰逢美国250周年庆典，以纪念美国建国250周年。
唐纳德·特朗普总统宣布特朗普-肯尼迪中心将关闭两年进行维护。(J. David Ake/盖蒂图片社)
“如果我们不关闭，建设质量将远不如预期，而且由于众多活动使用场馆导致观众中断，完成时间将大大延长。暂时关闭将产生更快、更高质量的结果！”特朗普周日在Truth Social上表示，解释为何该建筑群需要关闭两年。
一位特朗普-肯尼迪中心官员告诉福克斯新闻数字版，该建筑群自1971年首次开放以来，因前几任领导层的数十年忽视而处于”极其糟糕的状态”。
该官员称此次翻修为”修复和美化项目”，将包括更新损坏的电梯、升级HVAC系统，并处理2.5亿美元前任领导层忽视的维护问题。
2025年12月19日，工人在华盛顿肯尼迪中心的外墙上安装标牌，添加唐纳德·特朗普总统的名字。(Al Drago/盖蒂图片社)
历史上总统都直接参与肯尼迪中心的管理，根据联邦法律任命该机构大多数董事会成员为六年任期。特朗普在2025年任命了新董事会，随后董事会选举他为董事长。
该官员表示，如果不进行维护，特朗普-肯尼迪中心将无法生存。
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特朗普周一表示，翻修估计耗资2亿美元，同时强调大楼不会被拆除。
“我不会拆除它，”特朗普在椭圆形办公室对记者说。”我会使用现有的钢材。所以我们会利用现有结构。”
“我们会使用一些大理石，有些大理石会被拆除，但重新开放时它将焕然一新，非常漂亮，”他说。”我们将拥有全新的空调和供暖系统。”
达拉维在发给福克斯新闻数字版的声明中继续表示，为”密集修复和美化项目”而进行的暂时关闭是”最合理的选择，以确保全面翻修、高效完成项目和负责任地使用纳税人资金”。
唐纳德·特朗普总统宣布场馆将于7月4日关闭。(Mark Schiefelbein/美联社)
“凭借特朗普总统在按时、低于预算完成项目方面的可靠记录，完工后的中心将展现美国的真正美丽，”她补充道。”暂时关闭的短期不便将带来一个振兴的文化地标，将服务于子孙后代。”
理查德·格伦内尔大使担任特朗普-肯尼迪中心总裁，称赞特朗普和国会为翻修拨款2.57亿美元。他补充说，领导层不仅专注于拯救中心免于毁灭，还旨在”使其成为世界上最优秀的艺术机构”。
2013年9月24日，约翰·F·肯尼迪总统的纪念半身像俯瞰中心大堂。(Paul J. Richards/盖蒂图片社)
“它迫切需要这次翻修，暂时关闭中心是合理的——这将使我们能够更好地投资资源，着眼更宏大的目标，并进行更全面的历史性翻修，”格伦内尔在发给福克斯新闻数字版的声明中表示。”这也意味着我们将更快完成。特朗普总统以按时、低于预算且精美完成大型建筑项目而闻名。”
翻修是在该中心董事会于2025年12月一致投票将其更名为”唐纳德·J·特朗普和约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术纪念中心”之后进行的。
华盛顿特区波托马克河上肯尼迪中心的外部，无日期。(Hulton Archive/盖蒂图片社)
这一名称变更引发民主党人迅速谴责，包括非投票董事会成员，如参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（D-N.Y.）、众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（D-N.Y.）等声称此举非法，因为事先未获得国会批准。佛蒙特州独立参议员伯尼·桑德斯于1月提出立法，试图禁止现任总统在联邦建筑上使用自己的名字，该立法与特朗普-肯尼迪中心名称更新有关。
“特朗普在联邦建筑上使用自己的名字是傲慢且非法的，”桑德斯上月在新闻发布会上表示。”我们必须结束这种自恋行为——这正是这项法案的目的。”
该中心表示，董事会一致认为特朗普在其第二个任期内挽救了该机构免于财务崩溃。
福克斯新闻数字版的阿曼达·马西亚斯对本报道有贡献。
The massive renovations at the Trump-Kennedy Center that are expected to shutter Washington’s premier performing arts venue for two years will focus on correcting deferred maintenance — including overhauling its heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems and fixing its broken elevators, Fox News Digital learned.
“In less than 1 year, Trump has balanced the budget, raised over $130 million from donors, and secured $257 million from Congress,” Vice President of Public Relations Roma Daravi said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “We are financially stable yet the building is still physically in trouble.”
“Decades of gross negligence left this institution with a broken budget, $100 million operating deficit, $26 million bottom-line deficit, and $250 million of deferred maintenance needs,” she continued.
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the venue would close July 4, which coincides with America 250 celebrations honoring the nation’s semiquincentennial anniversary of the U.S. founding.
FROM THE OVAL OFFICE TO THE TRUMP KENNEDY CENTER, THE GILDED MAKEOVER EXPANDS
President Donald Trump announced the Trump–Kennedy Center would shutter for two years for maintenance.(J. David Ake/Getty Images)
“If we don’t close, the quality of Construction will not be nearly as good, and the time to completion, because of interruptions with Audiences from the many Events using the Facility, will be much longer. The temporary closure will produce a much faster and higher quality result!” Trump said on Truth Social Sunday, explaining why the complex needs to shutter for two years.
A Trump-Kennedy official told Fox News Digital that the complex, which first opened in 1971, has suffered decades of neglect by former leadership that has left the building in “extremely poor condition.”
The official described the renovations as “a restoration and beautification project,” that will include updating its broken elevators, updating its HVAC system and taking on $250 million in maintenance issues that the official said were ignored by previous leadership.
Workers affix signage adding President Donald Trump’s name on the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington, Dec. 19, 2025.(Al Drago/Getty Images)
Presidents historically have played direct roles in Kennedy Center governance, appointing most of the institution’s board of trustees to six-year terms under federal law. Trump appointed a new board in 2025, which then elected him their chairman.
The official said the Trump-Kennedy Center would simply not survive if the maintenance was not done.
Trump said Monday that the renovations will cost an estimated $200 million while underscoring the building is not being torn down.
“I’m not ripping it out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I’ll be using the steel. So we’re using the structure.”
“We’re using some of the marble, and some of the marble comes down, but when it’s open, it’ll be brand new and really beautiful,” he said. “We’re going to have all brand-new air conditioning, heating.”
Daravi continued in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that the temporary closure for an “intensive restoration and beautification project” is “the most logical choice to allow for comprehensive renovations, efficient project completion, and responsible use of taxpayer dollars.”
President Donald Trump announced that the venue would close July 4.(Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press)
“With President Trump’s proven record of delivering projects under budget and ahead of schedule, the finished Center will reflect the true beauty of America,” she added. “The short-term inconvenience of a temporary closure will result in a revitalized cultural landmark built to serve generations to come.”
Ambassador Richard Grenell serves as the Trump-Kennedy Center’s president and praised Trump and Congress for appropriating $257 million for the renovations. He added that leadership is not only focused on saving the center from ruin, but to “make it the finest Arts Institution in the world.”
WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA TO DEPART TRUMP–KENNEDY CENTER AMID REPORTED FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES
A memorial bust of President John F. Kennedy overlooks the lobby of the center on Sept. 24, 2013.(Paul J. Richards/Getty Images)
“It desperately needs this renovation and temporarily closing the Center just makes sense – it will enable us to better invest our resources, think bigger and make the historic renovations more comprehensive,” Grenell said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. “It also means we will be finished faster. President Trump has a reputation for delivering large construction projects on time, under budget and beautifully finished.”
The renovations come after the center’s board of trustees unanimously voted to rename it “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts” in December 2025.
Exterior of the Kennedy Center on the Potomac River, Washington, D.C., undated.(Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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The name change set off swift rebuke among Democrats, with nonvoting board members, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and others claiming the move was illegal as it did not earn congressional approval ahead of time. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced legislation in January that seeks to bar sitting presidents from putting their own names on federal buildings, linking it to the Trump-Kennedy Center name update.
“For Trump to put his name on federal buildings is arrogant, and it is illegal,” Sanders said in a press release last month. “We must put an end to this narcissism — and that’s what this bill does.”
The center said the board agreed Trump saved the institution from financial ruin during his second term.
Fox News Digital’s Amanda Macias contributed to this report.
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