Trump threatens to keep Kennedy Centre closed for good after name ruling

US President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to keep the Kennedy Centre closed for good after a judge ruled his name cannot be added onto the famed arts institution’s facade.

Trump said his hand-picked board voted “almost unanimously” to shut the venue immediately for emergency renovations, just a few hours after the federal judge’s decision.

But he warned the “very large and complex” repairs at the building in Washington cannot begin until a higher court rules on whether the centre can be...