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bif

(26,174 posts) Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:01 AM Jul 29

GOP Aims to rename Kennedy Center after President Tr*mp with new bill

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Source: Yahoo News

A proposed House Republican bill aims to strip former president John F. Kennedy’s name from the Kennedy Center, turning it into the “Trump Center for the Performing Arts.”

Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) introduced the bill Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gop-aims-rename-kennedy-center-224238428.html

Because he's such a patron of the arts! And he's so cultured!

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GOP Aims to rename Kennedy Center after President Tr*mp with new bill (Original Post) bif Jul 29 OP

They'll be erecting statues in town squares next. Sieg Heil! surfered Jul 29 #1

Oh, hell no! FakeNoose Jul 29 #2

WEAK sauce! Why not the Metropolitan Opera and La Scala too? bucolic_frolic Jul 29 #3

I think the Metro Opera is going to be named after Melania Owens Jul 29 #21

The GOP's tongue is firmly inserted in his anus RainCaster Jul 29 #4

I'll never call it that. bif Jul 29 #5

Just more gish gallop nonsense JustAnotherGen Jul 29 #6

Next they'll bring in stripper poles and Kid Rock IronLionZion Jul 29 #7

The Lincoln Memorial? Sneederbunk Jul 29 #8

Renaming the Kennedy Center for Donald and Melania Trump would violate the law that created it LetMyPeopleVote Jul 29 #9

New name for this facility LetMyPeopleVote Jul 29 #10

Trying to erase more Dem icons Bayard Jul 29 #11

Rename the Kennedy Center the "Trump/aka Charlie the Tuna Performing Arts Center" Greybnk48 Jul 29 #12

They can have their J6 heroes shit on the steps. Turbineguy Jul 29 #13

Don't forget the Washington Monument, the Potomac River and Grand Canyon. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jul 29 #14

I would support renaming the Grand Canyon the Trump Canyon if someone would take him up in a helicopter generalbetrayus Jul 29 #15

This just in...... For the sake of national security (lol) the White House (the actual building) will be moved twodogsbarking Jul 29 #16

Heartbreaking Figarosmom Jul 29 #17

Trumps are philistines bmichaelh Jul 29 #18

What's next? Renaming Howard University after Jefferson Davis? DFW Jul 29 #19

We are at the Cultural Cleansing stage of fascism. LudwigPastorius Jul 29 #20

Rename it the Trump Clown University. mdbl Jul 29 #22

That took six months longer than what I'd thought. Bengus81 Jul 29 #23

Locking- per SOP sarisataka Jul 29 #24

surfered

(8,744 posts)

1. They'll be erecting statues in town squares next. Sieg Heil!

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:07 AM

Jul 29

Lenin, Stalin, Saddam, all the greats.

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FakeNoose

(38,382 posts)

2. Oh, hell no!

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:07 AM

Jul 29

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bucolic_frolic

(52,064 posts)

3. WEAK sauce! Why not the Metropolitan Opera and La Scala too?

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:10 AM

Jul 29

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Owens

(557 posts)

21. I think the Metro Opera is going to be named after Melania

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 03:38 PM

Jul 29

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RainCaster

(13,046 posts)

4. The GOP's tongue is firmly inserted in his anus

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:20 AM

Jul 29

Complete capitulation, that's all this is. The GOP has become so pathetic, sheilding pedofiles and worshiping them publicly.

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bif

(26,174 posts)

5. I'll never call it that.

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:26 AM

Jul 29

Just like it'll always be Washington National Airport.

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JustAnotherGen

(36,736 posts)

6. Just more gish gallop nonsense

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:26 AM

Jul 29

When the Regime falls - we change it back outside of the Legislative Process. Easy peasey. Thee Defeated can suck it if they don't like it.

We are putting their JC Esquire 6 feet under once and for all. It's enough. I'm sick of those people. I hate magapubs and this is just one more reason for me to despise them.

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IronLionZion

(49,739 posts)

7. Next they'll bring in stripper poles and Kid Rock

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:45 AM

Jul 29

serve McDonalds food in the cafeteria. Security will be provided by ICE

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Sneederbunk

(16,547 posts)

8. The Lincoln Memorial?

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:46 AM

Jul 29

Statue will need a new head.

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LetMyPeopleVote

(168,628 posts)

9. Renaming the Kennedy Center for Donald and Melania Trump would violate the law that created it

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:50 AM

Jul 29

The Kennedy Center can’t include new memorials or plaques — for donors or presidents — under U.S. law. Republicans would need to change that to rename it for the Trumps.

Renaming the Kennedy Center for Donald and Melania Trump would violate the law that created it

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel.bsky.social) 2025-07-29T13:21:42.628Z

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/renaming-kennedy-center-donald-melania-trump-violate-law-created-rcna221505

Three former board members for the Kennedy Center told NBC News that the law creating the center prohibited any of the facilities from being renamed, other than the Eisenhower Theater, after the president whose administration first authorized its construction in 1958. The project stalled and was revived under President John F. Kennedy, whose family led an effort to get the center built and named in his honor following his assassination. Two months later, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the legislation making it a living memorial to Kennedy.

According to U.S. code, “After December 2, 1983, no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”

Republicans would have to pass legislation to change that. “Legally, they can’t just slap her name on it without congressional action,” said a spokesperson for Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine, the lead Democrat on the Appropriations subcommittee on the interior.

“If Republicans can’t pass their budget — which they usually can’t — the Melania Trump renaming provision dies,” the spokesperson continued. “The only real wildcard is whether Trump or his allies ignore the law entirely and try to do it unilaterally. But that would have no legal basis — and would almost certainly trigger a court fight.”.....

President Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg posted strong criticism of the opera house’s renaming proposal last week. Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy’s son, wrote, “JFK believed the arts made our country great and could be our most effective weapon in the fight for civil rights and against authoritarian governments around the world,” adding, “The Trump administration stands for freedom of oppression, not expression.”

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LetMyPeopleVote

(168,628 posts)

10. New name for this facility

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:56 AM

Jul 29

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Bayard

(26,639 posts)

11. Trying to erase more Dem icons

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 12:00 PM

Jul 29

No. Not legal. Although, he does have tons of other illegalities under his big belt.

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Greybnk48

(10,594 posts)

12. Rename the Kennedy Center the "Trump/aka Charlie the Tuna Performing Arts Center"

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 12:07 PM

Jul 29

Trump reminds me of the old TV ads for "Starkist Tuna" with "Charlie the Tuna," if anyone still remembers them. Charlie was a Starkist reject because he wasn't a high enough quality tuna.

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In the ads Charlie was always trying to appear refined enough to be picked as the highest grade tuna by doing things like, listening to opera, learning to paint, and any of the other things he thought tunas "with good taste" did that made them higher grade.

The fishermen would see through the ruse and always throw Charlie back saying, "Sorry Charlie, Starkist only takes the best tasting tuna" [not tuna with good taste].

Trump doesn't understand that no matter how many things he slops his name on, associates his name with, whatever, he will never be who he wants to be. People KNOW who and what he is, especially the people he wants to impress. He's already been rejected HARD byt the entire City of New York! He's despised there by the class of people he's chasing. It will never happen for him OR his horrible children...all of them.
I don't know who will perform at the Kennedy Center for the brief time his name may be on it. One can only endure so much Kid Rock and one hit wonder Lee Greenwood

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Turbineguy

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13. They can have their J6 heroes shit on the steps.

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 12:14 PM

Jul 29

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LastLiberal in PalmSprings

(13,252 posts)

14. Don't forget the Washington Monument, the Potomac River and Grand Canyon.

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 12:16 PM

Jul 29

"United States of Trump" has a nice sound to it, don't you think?

What a bunch of moroons!

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generalbetrayus

(1,158 posts)

15. I would support renaming the Grand Canyon the Trump Canyon if someone would take him up in a helicopter

Reply to LastLiberal in PalmSprings (Reply #14)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 12:47 PM

Jul 29

and push him out over the canyon.

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twodogsbarking

(15,238 posts)

16. This just in...... For the sake of national security (lol) the White House (the actual building) will be moved

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 12:52 PM

Jul 29

to West Palm Beach, FL. Trump moving company will be handling all arrangements and the government will pay. Trump was quoted as saying "It will be the biggest moving project anyone has ever seen, bigger than when Mexicans stole the pyramids from Eqypt and moved them to Mexico". Still quoting "bet you didn't know they did that and I was never to Springsteen's island". News networks all report it as a positive sign that Trump is and will always be king.

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Figarosmom

(7,991 posts)

17. Heartbreaking

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 01:19 PM

Jul 29

And hopefully not for long.

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bmichaelh

(913 posts)

18. Trumps are philistines

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 01:45 PM

Jul 29

The Kennedys were known as promoters of culture.

They invited these artists to the White House.

Leonard Bernstein, Pablo Casals, Igor Stravinsky, Isaac Stern, and the American Ballet Theatre.

His brother, RFK Sr. could quote from Aeschylus.

What artists have the current philistines that occupy the White House invite?

They should realize that it can be named back.

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DFW

(58,789 posts)

19. What's next? Renaming Howard University after Jefferson Davis?

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 02:19 PM

Jul 29

I suppose I shouldn't be giving anyone ideas..............

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LudwigPastorius

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20. We are at the Cultural Cleansing stage of fascism.

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 03:11 PM

Jul 29

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mdbl

(7,213 posts)

22. Rename it the Trump Clown University.

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 03:58 PM

Jul 29

What an asshole. Doesn't matter to me, I will never attend or watch anything in the future having to do with the Kennedy Center while that buffoon is still in the position to ruin more of our country.

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Bengus81

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23. That took six months longer than what I'd thought.

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 04:28 PM

Jul 29

I knew that POS would have to throw Kennedy's name in the dumpster. Go ahead you NAZI POS,when we take back over the name will be changed right back to the Kennedy Center.

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sarisataka

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24. Locking- per SOP

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 04:32 PM

Jul 29

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