Kennedy Center to be renamed 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says

[shelshaw]

Epstein Epstein Epstein

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/trump-renaming-kennedy-center.html

The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, commonly known as the Kennedy Center, will be renamed the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

The prestigious Washington, D.C., cultural center’s board of trustees, who were appointed by President Donald Trump in February, “have just voted unanimously” on the name change, Leavitt said on X.

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[wcmagumba]

1. One more thing to be undone after TSF is gone...

[hlthe2b]

2. Sickening.

[malaise]

3. I detest these classless morons

Eff this shit

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220875830

[Ocelot II]

4. The list of things that will need to be undone when he's gone

(please, God, or karma, or whoever is in charge of such things, make that happen soon; today works for me), grows every day. It's exponentially worse than the GOP's Reagan-naming frenzy, which at least Reagan didn't orchestrate himself while he was president - and although he was getting dotty he wasn't nearly as far gone as Agent Orange.

[yourout]

7. Going to need an AI facility just to collect all the data that..

Needs to be corrected.

[Joinfortmill]

13. Amen.

[Joinfortmill]

22. Omg! Agent Orange. Lol.

[hlthe2b]

5. If it still is viable. There has been a devastating drop in ticket sales and in performers willing to do so there..

and that was BEFORE his name was attached. I don't know that this it will even survive the next 3 years. Of course its failure will give him the excuse to turn it over to some other disgusting function or destroy it totally for something else. Sure Congress SHOULD have some say, but if they haven't intervened on the East Wing... Well...

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. TACO Don wants his name IMMORTALIZED on EVERYTHING in this country!

What has he done for the Arts? NOT a damn thing?

UFC fights do not count.

[Joinfortmill]

23. It will become INFAMOUS! TickTock.

[Itchinjim]

8. Nothing is sacred to him. He even put his name above JFK's.

[malaise]

16. Wrong

Only he is sacred.

[milestogo]

9. Because TSF has such a positive impact on American culture.

[Joinfortmill]

10. Not for long. TickTock

[EnergizedLib]

11. We'll have to undo this in 2029, too

But no matter how much the felon tries to force himself on everybody else, history will forever be cruel to him as he is to this country and its people.

[oasis]

20. 100% that!

[orangecrush]

12. Not the Onion

[shelshaw]

18. Yes, should have led with that...

[orangecrush]

24. Yes, satire is dead.

[jls4561]

14. Why not go all out and rename it the Trump Center for the tacky and talentless?

[lindalou65]

15. Kennedy Center renamed Trump-Kennedy Center

How dare he put his name first? This renaming should never be allowed. I am sure JFK has rolled over in his grave. Just sickening!

[spanone]

17. Fuck this Shit.

[PSPS]

19. Just more of his Bonwit Teller behavior.

[Boo1]

21. When a Democrat wins in 2028

Their first EO should be to ban the word Trump for all federal uses.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. It takes an Act of Congress to change the name of the Kennedy Center

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/76i?utm#

20 U.S. Code § 76i - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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(a)In general

The Board shall construct for the Smithsonian Institution, with funds raised by voluntary contributions, a building to be designated as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on a site in the District of Columbia bounded by the Inner Loop Freeway on the east, the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge approaches on the south, Rock Creek Parkway on the west, New Hampshire Avenue and F Street on the north, which shall be selected for such purpose by the National Capital Planning Commission. The National Capital Planning Commission shall acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, lands necessary to provide for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and related facilities. Such building shall be in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Commission of Fine Arts

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[MustLoveBeagles]

26. I wish this was an Onion headline

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27. Not surprised

Stalingrad : Trumpington

Everything will be renamed Trump!

[Wiz Imp]

28. Here are the Board Members (all appointed by Trump) who supposedly voted unanimously

Of the 34 members, only 3 have any kind of connection to the arts and at least one of those is an extremely shaky connection.

Lee Greenwood - Singer
Mary Helen Bowers - former Ballerina
Patricia Duggan - supposedly a "Glass Artist"

Members Appointed by the President of the United States
Brian D. Ballard
Maria Bartiromo
Pamela Bondi
Mary Helen Bowers
Hannah F. Buchan
Robert Castellani
Elaine Chao
Pamella Roland DeVos
Patricia Duggan
John Falconetti
Emilia May Fanjul
Jennifer Fischer
Lynette Friess
Sergio Gor
Pamela Gross
Lee Greenwood
Kate Adamson Haselwood
Laura Ingraham
Michele Kessler
Dana Kraft
Mindy Levine
Lynda Lomangino
Barbara Long
Allison Lutnick
Douglas Manchester
Catherine B. Reynolds
Denise Saul
Dan Scavino
Cheri Summerall
President Donald J. Trump
Usha Vance
Susie Wiles
Andrea Wynn
Paolo Zampolli

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. The Kennedy Center is still the Kennedy Cente