You have so much on your plate.
Why come here today?
We want them to be excited.
Donald Trump looks down from the presidential box at the Kennedy Center.Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
I never liked Hamilton very much, Trump said.
I never liked it.
But we are going to have some really good shows.
The thing that does well as Broadway hits.
A longtime loyalist, Ric Grenell, is now serving as president of the Kennedy Center.
Trump told reporters that the show got very tired.
I think were going to do a very big show.
We have some surprises.
Some very big surprises.
The expansion added three concrete pavilions that rise from a greenspace roof on the south end of the center.
Bring it into more modern times.
He also complained of union rules at the center.
They wanted $30,000 just to move a piano.
So you cant have that.
Were going to fix it.
Were going to make it a part of D.C. and the Capitol.
The center, which opened in 1971, is a modernist structure designed by Edward Durell Stone.
The centers Grand Foyer is one of the largest rooms in the world.
Albert Speer would have approved.
