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shelshaw

(690 posts) Thu Dec 18, 2025, 02:28 PM Dec 2025

Kennedy Center to be renamed 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says [View all]

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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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Kennedy Center to be renamed 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says [View all] shelshaw Dec 2025 OP

One more thing to be undone after TSF is gone... wcmagumba Dec 2025 #1

Sickening. hlthe2b Dec 2025 #2

I detest these classless morons malaise Dec 2025 #3

The list of things that will need to be undone when he's gone Ocelot II Dec 2025 #4

Going to need an AI facility just to collect all the data that.. yourout Dec 2025 #7

Amen. Joinfortmill Dec 2025 #13

Omg! Agent Orange. Lol. Joinfortmill Dec 2025 #22

If it still is viable. There has been a devastating drop in ticket sales and in performers willing to do so there.. hlthe2b Dec 2025 #5

TACO Don wants his name IMMORTALIZED on EVERYTHING in this country! ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2025 #6

It will become INFAMOUS! TickTock. Joinfortmill Dec 2025 #23

Nothing is sacred to him. He even put his name above JFK's. Itchinjim Dec 2025 #8

Wrong malaise Dec 2025 #16

Because TSF has such a positive impact on American culture. milestogo Dec 2025 #9

Not for long. TickTock Joinfortmill Dec 2025 #10

We'll have to undo this in 2029, too EnergizedLib Dec 2025 #11

100% that! oasis Dec 2025 #20

Not the Onion orangecrush Dec 2025 #12

Yes, should have led with that... shelshaw Dec 2025 #18

Yes, satire is dead. orangecrush Dec 2025 #24

Why not go all out and rename it the Trump Center for the tacky and talentless? jls4561 Dec 2025 #14

Kennedy Center renamed Trump-Kennedy Center lindalou65 Dec 2025 #15

Fuck this Shit. spanone Dec 2025 #17

Just more of his Bonwit Teller behavior. PSPS Dec 2025 #19

When a Democrat wins in 2028 Boo1 Dec 2025 #21

It takes an Act of Congress to change the name of the Kennedy Center LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2025 #25

I wish this was an Onion headline MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #26

Not surprised bucolic_frolic Dec 2025 #27

Here are the Board Members (all appointed by Trump) who supposedly voted unanimously Wiz Imp Dec 2025 #28

The Kennedy Center is still the Kennedy Cente LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2025 #29