Throwaway Trump comment triggers fear that he plans to bulldoze Kennedy Center

In a knee-jerk reaction compared to that of a "jealous wife-beater," an unguarded utterance by President Donald Trump has onlookers alarmed he plans to tear the Kennedy Center to the ground.

The alarm was raised by Salon writer Amanda Marcotte on Wednesday, as she wrote about Trump's announcement that the Washington, D.C. hub of culture would be shuttered for two years for "renovations."

The true reason for the closure, Marcotte argued, was that Trump's attempt to put himself at the...