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(26,075 posts) Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:01 AM Jul 29

GOP Aims to rename Kennedy Center after President Tr*mp with new bill [View all]

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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 [View all] 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