Trump Says Kennedy Center ‘in Tremendous Disrepair’

President Donald Trump says he’s “disappointed” in what he saw while touring the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, telling reporters, “It’s in tremendous disrepair, as is a lot of the rest of our country, most of it because of bad management.”

“I’m very disappointed when I look around. The bottom line: It has tremendous potential. And we’ll work with Congress. … It’s a very public facility, and we’ll do what has to be done,” Trump said.

“We’re going to fix it up, but it’s really emblematic of our country,” he added.

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