Trump says Kennedy Center building collapses could have killed ‘innocent people’

President Donald Trump claimed the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in a “virtual state of collapse” and poses a danger to people after a judge ruled again Trump could not rename the building after himself.

“A large piece of concrete and steel just dropped down, in a thud, from the ceiling of a heavily trafficked main hallway,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday ahead of a meeting with the center’s board of trustees. “If the Building were open, innocent people would have been killed. A security guard had just passed the area, one minute prior to this ceiling collapse. He was, therefore, 60 seconds away from certain death.”