Lawyers from the Department of Justice threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if the Trump administration isn't allowed to renovate it and put Trump's name on it. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
Aug. 25 (UPI) -- The Trump administration threatened in a court filing to demolish the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if it's not allowed to renovate the building, including putting President Donald Trump's name back on it.
"Without those efforts, the Center will deteriorate further into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down, with a determination to follow on what to build on the site, such as a large outdoor amphitheater overlooking the Potomac River that has been proposed, by some, for many years," Justice Department attorney Brantley T. Mayers wrote in a court filing on Monday.
The document said that any potential amphitheater would "fail to adequately honor" President John F. Kennedy, "but would be simpler and more economical to build, operate and maintain."
The attorneys from the Department of Justice wrote that the center is "structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe and embarrassing to the Nation's Capital."
