Chicken Little made quite the mess by shouting that the sky was falling when it wasn’t. (Fake news.) TACO Trump, meanwhile, is causing a similar scene even when accurately reporting on Truth Social that a piece of the Kennedy Center’s ceiling fell into the building’s grand foyer earlier this month. Well, except for the part where the president breathlessly claimed that many people could have been killed.

More broadly, Trump’s allies are united in saying we told you so: the Kennedy Center can’t survive without Trump taking over the renovation project… and installing his name on the outside of the building at the same time, naturally.

It’s a terrible crossroads for Center supporters. Do you accept the poison pill or let the building lapse into further disrepair? A protest is planned for Friday early evening for supporters to link arms and encircle the building.

“If there are enough people, we will try to ‘hug’ the Kennedy Center,” a Kennedy Center usher wrote in a neighborhood group chain in promotion of the event.

Perhaps Trump will need a hug himself. Amid a flurry of histrionics and back-and-forth developments on Tuesday, the same D.C.District Court judge who had in May ordered Trump’s name removed from the Center dealt the president another defeat, reiterating his earlier ruling that Trump needs Congress to go along with him........

© The Daily Beast