Reporter to Trump: Why Are You And The First Lady Expending So Much Time And Energy On The Kennedy Center?
President Donald Trump discussed the architecture of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, highlighting its place in the history of opera houses and its reputation for exceptional acoustics. Trump was asked why he and First Lady Melania Trump are “so focused on reviving” the Kennedy Center.
REPORTER: Why are you and the First Lady expending so much time, so much energy, in revivifying and remaking the Kennedy Center? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It’s not the Kennedys, we’re, and we are, look, Bobby Jr. is doing a fantastic job. It’s not the Kennedys, it’s our country. We’re bringing our country back, and we’re bringing D.C. back, Washington, D.C. We’re bringing our capital. It’s a safe place now. REPORTER: No, I mean the Kennedy Center. The center itself. Why are you so focused on revivifying? TRUMP: Because it could never be built again. It’s got three massive places, call them, and you have different stages, dance, theater, and you have a place that we’re going to be in tonight that there’s really nothing like it in the country. And if this disappeared, you’d never be able to build it again. And I’m able to save it because that’s what I used to do for a living, really, is, well, maybe better than anybody else. I could take something and spend less money than other people and make it better than anybody else could. The Kennedy Center has a chance to be unbelievable. And you know, I mentioned yesterday something very important, sound. It’s like sometimes you could say, like people, either have it or you don’t, great sound in this building. A lot of times, and you know the Lincoln Center saga, they’ve rebuilt one building, most important building, they rebuilt it four times, and they’ve never been able to produce really great sound. The sound in the Kennedy Center has been incredible from day one. Call it luck or talent. Probably luck. There’s a lot of luck involved. You know, the great sound buildings, the greatest in the world, are the old opera houses built in the 1700s and 1800s in Europe. And they had one thing that was in common, lots of marble. And they didn’t have sound engineers, they had lots of marble. And this has got great sound. Even right here in the hallway, the sound is fantastic.
