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GB_RN

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2. The Next President...

Reply to OrlandoDem2 (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 07:47 AM

9 hrs ago

Will have to fix it: By law, only Congress has the authority to rename the Kennedy Center, and spells out the statutory name as The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

This “board” had no authority to make the change.

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Kennedy Center changed board rules months before vote to add Trump's name [View all] mahatmakanejeeves 10 hrs ago OP

The next Democratic president needs to take it off. OrlandoDem2 10 hrs ago #1

The Next President... GB_RN 9 hrs ago #2

Suggestions include a lottery with the prize being to get to wield the pickax muriel_volestrangler 7 hrs ago #7

The more Trump screams rigged, hadEnuf 8 hrs ago #3

And the board members who went along with trump's illegal move are as responsible as trump. Biophilic 8 hrs ago #4

Dump's name completely defiles that building. mdbl 8 hrs ago #5

Isn't that called "gaming the table"? sinkingfeeling 8 hrs ago #6

Bad reporting by the Washington post. sdfernando 4 hrs ago #8

The "decision this month by board members installed by President Donald Trump" was indeed unanimous. mahatmakanejeeves 3 hrs ago #9

OK..I didn't know that sdfernando 3 hrs ago #10