The 'TrumpKennedyCenter.org' website is taken. This comedian owns it. [View all]
Source: Washington Post
On Thursday afternoon, the board of the Kennedy Center announced it had voted to rename the cultural institution the “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.” By Friday morning a wholesale rebranding effort was underway, aided by construction workers on aerial lifts, adding the president’s name to the building’s exterior.
The organization’s leaders might have wanted a new website to replace kennedy-center.org, too. But if they’d hoped for trumpkennedycenter.org, they were out of luck. A comedian bought it months ago.
“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.”
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