2026年9月5日 美国东部时间下午4:52 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
一名发言人表示，肯尼迪中心一条主走廊内的一块天花板坠落，这凸显了这座历史悠久的艺术场馆有必要按照特朗普总统的要求关闭进行翻新工程。
肯尼迪中心公共关系副总裁罗马·达拉维表示，周五晚间，该中心宏伟门厅内的一块天花板部分坍塌，未造成人员受伤。
该中心提供的照片显示，高耸的天花板上出现一个大洞，连接肯尼迪中心三个主要表演礼堂的走廊部分区域的红地毯上散落着碎屑。此次损坏发生在华盛顿的暴风雨天气期间。
“现实情况是，这座建筑正在分崩离析，而@realDonaldTrump 想要修复它，”达拉维在社交媒体上配着这些照片发帖称。
“没有任何正当理由进一步推迟翻新工程，”达拉维在另一条帖子中说道。“拖延的时间越长，基础设施的状况就越糟糕。”
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻联系了达拉维以寻求进一步置评。
肯尼迪中心与特朗普立场一致的董事会正在法庭上争取推进两项计划：一是在建筑外墙上添加特朗普的名字，二是关闭该中心两年以进行2.5亿美元的翻新工程。
达拉维将周五的天花板局部坍塌事件称为“迫切需要关闭场馆进行翻新和振兴的又一例证，正如我们的主席特朗普总统所倡导的那样”。
“这次结构性故障源于往届领导层数十年来的忽视和维护延迟，没有理由再拖延修复这座美国文化中心的工程，”达拉维在给美联社的一份声明中说道。
肯尼迪中心是为纪念遇刺的约翰·F·肯尼迪总统而设立的，特朗普试图在中心添加自己的名字并进行其他重大变革，这只是特朗普更广泛的第二任期重塑华盛顿议程的一部分。
总统已经拆除了白宫东翼以建造一座宴会厅。他还计划在阿灵顿国家公墓附近修建一座凯旋门。美国国家公园管理局表示，该场地的施工将于未来几周启动，预计工程将耗时两到三年，采用高强度的每日20小时、全年无休的工作时间表。波托马克河沿岸的翻新高尔夫球场项目也在筹备中。
这些项目遭到了民主党人和保护组织的反对。今年早些时候，一群退伍军人就该凯旋门项目提起诉讼，称特朗普政府未经国会批准便擅自建造。
美国地区法官克里斯托弗·库珀在5月做出裁决，特朗普的名字被非法添加到肯尼迪中心外墙上，并下令将其移除。他还阻止政府关闭该场馆进行翻新工程。
目前法官正在审理肯尼迪中心董事会8月的一项投票提案，该提案旨在将特朗普的名字重新加回外墙，内容为：“由唐纳德·J·特朗普总统修复和翻新的约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心”。司法部律师辩称，如果建筑上没有特朗普的名字，翻新工程的捐款将会枯竭。
其他变革已经推进。上周，肯尼迪中心拆除了2019年放置在中心外的一件名为《蓝色》的大型人形雕塑。肯尼迪中心未说明拆除原因，但在一份声明中表示，他们很荣幸能够保管已故雕塑家乔尔·夏皮罗的作品。
反对肯尼迪中心关闭的社区组织“保留肯尼迪中心”的创始人格蕾丝·特普斯特拉表示，她怀疑董事会会利用这场看似有限的天花板坍塌事件“来证明整个场馆都需要关闭，否则它会塌到每个人头上”。
“我认为他们会试图将其夸大，并声称他们还发现了许多其他问题，”该组织创始人特普斯特拉说道。
Renewed calls for Trump-backed Kennedy Center repairs after part of foyer ceiling falls
September 5, 2026 4:52 PM EDT / CBS/AP
A chunk of ceiling fell inside a main hallway of the Kennedy Center, which underscores the need to shut down the historic arts venue for renovations sought by President Trump, a spokesperson said.
No one was injured when a piece of the ceiling inside the Kennedy Center’s grand foyer partially collapsed Friday evening, said Roma Daravi, the center’s vice president for public relations.
Photos provided by the center showed a large hole in the high ceiling and debris littering the red carpet in part of the hallway that connects the Kennedy Center’s three main performance auditoriums. The damage occurred during stormy weather in Washington.
“The reality is, the place is falling apart and @realDonaldTrump wants to fix it,” Daravi said in a social media post with the photos.
“There is no legitimate reason to further halt the renovations,” Daravi said in another post. “The longer the delay, the worse the infrastructure gets.”
CBS News reached out to Daravi for further comment.
The Kennedy Center’s Trump-aligned board is fighting in court to move forward with plans to add Mr. Trump’s name to the building’s facade and to close the center for two years as it undergoes $250 million in renovations.
Daravi called the partial ceiling collapse Friday “another example of the urgent need to close for renovation and revitalization, as our Chairman President Trump has championed.”
“This structural failure stems from decades of neglect and deferred maintenance by the previous leadership, and there’s no justification for further delays in restoring America’s cultural center,” Daravi said in a statement to the Associated Press.
Mr. Trump’s efforts to add his name and make other big changes to the center established to honor President John F. Kennedy following his assassination are just part of Mr. Trump’s broader second-term agenda to reshape Washington.
The president has already demolished the East Wing of the White House to make way for a ballroom. He also plans a triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. Construction at the site is to start in the coming weeks, and the project is expected to take two to three years, with an intense 20-hour-a-day, year-round work schedule, the National Park Service has said. A renovated golf course along the Potomac River is also in the works.
The projects have drawn pushback from Democrats and preservation groups. Earlier this year, one group of veterans sued over the arch, arguing the Trump administration lacks congressional approval to build it.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled in May that Mr. Trump’s name had been added to the Kennedy Center illegally and ordered that it be taken down. He also blocked the administration from closing the venue for renovations.
Now before the judge is an August vote by the Kennedy Center’s board to return Mr. Trump’s name to the facade so reads: “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump.” Justice Department lawyers have argued donations for renovations will dry up without Mr. Trump’s name on the building.
Other changes have moved forward. Last week, the Kennedy Center took down a large stick figure sculpture known as Blue that had stood outside the center in 2019. The Kennedy Center gave no reason for its removal, but said in a statement “we are honored to have been stewards” of the late sculptor Joel Shapiro’s work.
Grace Terpstra of Keep the KC, a community group fighting the Kennedy Center’s closure, said she suspects the board will seize on what appears to be limited ceiling damage “to make the point that the whole thing needs to be shut down, that it’s going to fall on everybody.”
“I think they’ll try to make it into a bigger thing and show that they’ve found a lot of other things,” said Terpstra, the group’s founder.
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