At the intersection of power and culture, a dispute over naming rights has placed one of America's most storied performing arts institutions in an unlikely position of peril. President Trump has threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center — a national memorial and cultural landmark opened in 1971 — if courts block his effort to attach his name to the building. The confrontation raises questions that extend beyond architecture or branding: what happens when public institutions, built to serve collective memory and artistic life, become objects of personal ambition? Protesters gathering outside th