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. Kennedys 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!

surfered
(8,194 posts)Lenin, Stalin, Saddam, all the greats.
bucolic_frolic
(51,626 posts)
Owens
(550 posts)RainCaster
(12,995 posts)Complete capitulation, that's all this is. The GOP has become so pathetic, sheilding pedofiles and worshiping them publicly.
bif
(26,000 posts)Just like it'll always be Washington National Airport.
JustAnotherGen
(35,989 posts)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.
IronLionZion
(49,516 posts)serve McDonalds food in the cafeteria. Security will be provided by ICE
Sneederbunk
(16,337 posts)Statue will need a new head.
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,964 posts)The Kennedy Center cant 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
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel.bsky.social) 2025-07-29T13:21:42.628Z
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/renaming-kennedy-center-donald-melania-trump-violate-law-created-rcna221505
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 cant 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 cant pass their budget which they usually cant 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 Kennedys grandson Jack Schlossberg posted strong criticism of the opera houses renaming proposal last week. Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedys 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.
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,964 posts)
Bayard
(26,169 posts)No. Not legal. Although, he does have tons of other illegalities under his big belt.
Greybnk48
(10,578 posts)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.
?si=b89qwwQdjlx5QvpdIn 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
Turbineguy
(39,167 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(13,217 posts)"United States of Trump" has a nice sound to it, don't you think?
What a bunch of moroons!
generalbetrayus
(1,100 posts)and push him out over the canyon.
twodogsbarking
(14,637 posts)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.
Figarosmom
(7,252 posts)And hopefully not for long.
bmichaelh
(880 posts)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.
DFW
(58,596 posts)I suppose I shouldn't be giving anyone ideas..............
LudwigPastorius
(13,037 posts)mdbl
(7,029 posts)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.
Bengus81
(9,083 posts)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.
sarisataka
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