Trump appears to review poster about Kennedy Center demolition on Air Force One

President Trump was seen on Air Force One looking at a placard that appears to depict the potential demolition of the Kennedy Center amid an ongoing legal battle over getting his name on the building and starting renovations.

Zoomed-in photos taken by Agence France-Presse photojournalist Brendan Smialowski Wednesday night showed Trump viewing the board through the plane’s windows after landing at Joint Base Andrews.

The photos come as the Kennedy Center board voted to close the main building and Trump made the planned renovations contingent on his name being put on the building.

Trump told reporters Wednesday after arriving in North Carolina that the center is a “mess” and that the administration deserves recognition if it fixes it up.

“So, for the Trump administration, for me, to get involved and to take that on long term and to carry it or to raise money to carry it, I think that the Trump administration should certainly have recognition because, frankly, if we don’t do that, it’s going to close,” he said. “It’ll end up being ripped down. It’s in very, very bad shape, very dangerous shape.”

The president and the board have said the closure is needed to do some much-needed repairs. Administration officials have posted videos of a piece of ceiling collapsing.

Fencing also went up around the main building Wednesday.

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), an ex officio member of the board, called for an emergency hearing to explain the closure.

But court orders have blocked the closure of the building and the addition of Trump’s name. The center’s director and the White House have said the building will be closed for one week.

In a filing submitted Thursday morning, the board said the closure was decided because of “acute risks to public safety resulting from continued structural deterioration at the Center.”

Resolutions from the board have pointed to Trump’s fundraising skills as the only way to save the building.

Trump has also said he’s put in $17 million in donations to “keep it afloat.”

He said in a Truth Social post Tuesday that the renovations won’t begin until the court approves the board’s plan to put his name on the building.