New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday (local time) suggested in a court filing that if US President Donald Trump's name does not appear somewhere on the Kennedy Center, the "decrepit, dilapidated" cultural centre might face demolition, as funding from donors for renovations would shrivel up.

Brantley Mayers, a top official in the DOJ's Civil Division, argued in a filing that reads like one of Trump's Truth Social posts that the "decrepit" Kennedy Center faces an imminent "death spiral" without Trump's intervention, ABC News reported.

The filing said, "Without those efforts, the Center will deteriorate further into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down, with a determination to fol...