Michael Wolff claims the "rebrand" Trump WANTED was "The Trump Center," asking "Why does this have to be Kennedy?"

[Miles Archer]

Trump’s inner circle had to talk him down from an even more egregious rebranding of the Kennedy Center, according to his biographer.

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But the president’s egomaniacal quest may have escalated further had his advisers not intervened to curb his narcissistic impulses, author Michael Wolff shared on the Inside Trump’s Head podcast.

“His first idea was to call this the Trump Center,” Wolff told co-host Joanna Coles.

According to the author, who regularly speaks to people in the White House, Trump asked, “Why does this have to be Kennedy? That was such a long time ago.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-megalomaniac-trump-is-destroying-the-kennedy-center-michael-wolff/

[Marie Marie]

1. OK, the minute this pig is out of office will be "such a long time ago" enough for me to remove his

name from everything he or his ass kissers named after himself.

[electric_blue68]

2. WHY?! BECAUSE its an Effin' MEMORIAL to a BELOVED Slain President! You Over Bloated Narcissist!

Arrrrggggggg!!!
😬😬😬😬😬

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Insider reveals Trump's 'absurd' Kennedy Center plan -- that aides scrambled to kill (taking the Kennedy name off center

trump really wanted to rename the Kennedy Center to the trump center. trump really wanted to take Jack Kennedy's name of the center and just has his own name. trump cannot stand sharing credit with anyone.

President Donald Trump's advisers stopped him from ripping John F. Kennedy's name off the Kennedy Center altogether, leaving the cultural hub simply called the Trump Center, his biographer said."Why does this have to be Kennedy?"

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-02-06T18:00:18.860Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kennedy-center-2675105563/

President Donald Trump's advisers stopped him from ripping John F. Kennedy's name off the Kennedy Center altogether, leaving the cultural hub simply called the Trump Center, his biographer said.

“Why does this have to be Kennedy?" the president apparently argued. "That was such a long time ago.”

Trump, 79, has substantially remade the Washington, D.C. performing arts institution in his image, taking control of its board, renaming it "The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" without congressional approval, and announcing plans to close it for extensive renovations.

But writer Michael Wolff, who spent months inside the first Trump White House, told the Daily Beast that Trump's original proposal was far more ambitious. Wolff stated, "His first idea was to call this the Trump Center."

"I was almost assassinated," he said, according to Wolff. "Therefore, it should be me." Trump experienced two assassination attempts in 2024.

Trump's inner circle was able to persuade him away from the plan. Wolff said, "You can't say, 'This is a terrible idea. This is a megalomaniacal idea. This is not good politics.' You just cannot say any of that stuff to Trump. So instead, they said, 'Well, why don't we call it the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center?'"

After trump closes the Kennedy Center for two years, I would not be surprised to see the Kennedy name removed. Hopefully, trump will be gone before the two years are up

[Historic NY]

4. Almost doesn't count in assassination.

or staged event.

[Rob H.]

5. Trump's like that person in every group project

who does almost none of the work and still expects equal credit, if not the lion's share. He's the world's worst tagalong.