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Donald Trump: “Last year we raised over $130 million to keep this place…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump holds news conference amid Iran conflict

Published | Video Starts at 30:35

Some of the, some of the news media loves dei, but we got rid of it. Maybe you're right. Brought back patriotic and family friendly programming. And Last year we raised over $130 million to keep this place going. Otherwise it would have been. It would have been closed. The building, the. Let's call it the Kennedy center from that time, was losing so much money. (30:35–30:42)

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Asserts that over $130 million was raised last year to keep [the Kennedy Center] operational.

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