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Board members of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. have reportedly created a draft resolution that warns of “certain fiscal collapse within weeks,” claiming that the only way to remedy their current crisis is to place President Donald Trump’s name back on the building.

During the first month of his second term in office, Trump fired all of the board of trustees for the center, replacing them with handpicked loyalists who eventually voted to rename it “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.” A federal judge ruled earlier this year that the name change was improper without the passage of a congressional bill. The question of the center’s name is currently tied up in the courts.

According to reporting from The Washington Post and The New York Times, members of the board appear to have drafted a resolution meant to bolster arguments in favor of putting Trump’s name back on the building’s exterior. The draft says that Trump has “offered to step in and raise the necessary funds” for the center, adding that, “without such appropriate recognition, it is unlikely that President Trump will provide the fundamental oversight of the renovation of the main building and lead the fiscal rescue of the center.”

Board member Paolo Zampolli, who is a longtime Trump loyalist, told........

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