When a sitting president suggests demolishing one of the nation's most storied cultural landmarks, the statement — however casual — becomes a mirror held up to the architecture of constitutional power itself. The Kennedy Center, a federal memorial and performing arts institution on the National Mall, sits at the intersection of executive authority, congressional control of the purse, and statutory protections for historically significant structures. President Trump's public threat has prompted legal scholars to trace the precise boundaries of what a president may unilaterally command, and wher