Tuesday’s meeting of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ board will now focus exclusively on the “necessary closure” of the center, and not on additional ways to honor President Donald Trump, the Trump administration said in an overnight federal court filing.
In their late-night court filing, Justice Department lawyers included an email sent to the board at 7 p.m. Monday by Kennedy Center official Joe LaFauci, indicating that a separate draft resolution proposing ten new ways to honor Trump would not be considered, and that the board “stands by” its earlier vote to recognize the president.
LaFauci in his email said the update to Tuesday’s agenda was due “to the recently exacerbated structural emergencies” at the center, the court filing said.