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shelshaw

(671 posts)
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 02:33 PM 14 hrs ago

The 'TrumpKennedyCenter.org' website is taken. This comedian owns it.

Now THIS is how it's done

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/trumpkennedycenter-org-website-taken-comedian-174317463.html

“As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, ‘Yep, that name’s going on the building,’” explains Toby Morton, a comedy writer with “South Park” and “Mad TV” credits who buys political domains and turns them into satirical websites as a form of activism. All year, Morton followed news of Trump’s takeover of the institution - how the president purged many of its existing board members, replaced them with loyalists, then announced plans to personally host the Kennedy Center Honors - and in August he snapped up the rights to both trumpkennedycenter.org and trumpkennedycenter.com.

“The rest,” he writes in an email interview with The Post, “followed on schedule.”

It’s not uncommon for people to speculatively buy website domains that could be valuable one day, often in an attempt to turn a profit. Registering a new domain usually costs around $15 to $30. But if you want one that’s already been purchased, the owner could jack up the price significantly.

Morton isn’t in the game to sell off his domains; he’s got websites for about 50 of them. Instead, he buys them with the express purpose of turning them into seemingly legit websites that, upon closer inspection, often skewer their namesakes.
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The 'TrumpKennedyCenter.org' website is taken. This comedian owns it. (Original Post) shelshaw 14 hrs ago OP
Blows Against The Empire!! BurnDoubt 13 hrs ago #1
Skewer away Warrior! Skewer away! wolfie001 12 hrs ago #2
Brilliant! TY & Toby Morton for his Cha 12 hrs ago #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Rocknation 12 hrs ago #4
Legend has it that actor Leonardo DiCaprio had to pay $15K Rocknation 12 hrs ago #5
smart guy NJCher 11 hrs ago #6
This will be fun to watch LetMyPeopleVote 9 hrs ago #7
Toby Morton is a treasure. MontanaMama 6 hrs ago #8
THE SIGN WASN'T FINISHED. usonian 5 hrs ago #9
It is ForgedCrank 5 hrs ago #10
.gov is irrelevant NJCher 2 hrs ago #11

Response to shelshaw (Original post)

Rocknation

(44,970 posts)
5. Legend has it that actor Leonardo DiCaprio had to pay $15K
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 04:56 PM
12 hrs ago

for the rights to LeonardoDiCaprio.com -- though trumpkennedycenter.GOV is probably still available.


Rocknation

NJCher

(42,287 posts)
6. smart guy
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 05:22 PM
11 hrs ago

snip

“As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, ‘Yep, that name’s going on the building,’” explains Toby Morton, a comedy writer

snip

But he was also attuned to trumpian bs because he writes for South Park.



Well played, comedy writer.

MontanaMama

(24,604 posts)
8. Toby Morton is a treasure.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 10:35 PM
6 hrs ago

If you’re on instagram or Threads, I highly recommend following him. The heartburn he gives the nutters is entertaining to say the least.

ForgedCrank

(3,005 posts)
10. It is
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:26 PM
5 hrs ago

irrelevant.
All of the government websites are listed under the .gov root domain, no one else is allowed to own or register them.

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