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shelshaw

(674 posts) Thu Dec 18, 2025, 01:28 PM Dec 18

Kennedy Center to be renamed 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says [View all]

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/trump-renaming-kennedy-center.html

The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, commonly known as the Kennedy Center, will be renamed the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

The prestigious Washington, D.C., cultural center’s board of trustees, who were appointed by President Donald Trump in February, “have just voted unanimously” on the name change, Leavitt said on X.

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Kennedy Center to be renamed 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says [View all] shelshaw Dec 18 OP

One more thing to be undone after TSF is gone... wcmagumba Dec 18 #1

Sickening. hlthe2b Dec 18 #2

I detest these classless morons malaise Dec 18 #3

The list of things that will need to be undone when he's gone Ocelot II Dec 18 #4

Going to need an AI facility just to collect all the data that.. yourout Dec 18 #7

Amen. Joinfortmill Dec 18 #13

Omg! Agent Orange. Lol. Joinfortmill Dec 18 #22

If it still is viable. There has been a devastating drop in ticket sales and in performers willing to do so there.. hlthe2b Dec 18 #5

TACO Don wants his name IMMORTALIZED on EVERYTHING in this country! ProudMNDemocrat Dec 18 #6

It will become INFAMOUS! TickTock. Joinfortmill Dec 18 #23

Nothing is sacred to him. He even put his name above JFK's. Itchinjim Dec 18 #8

Wrong malaise Dec 18 #16

Because TSF has such a positive impact on American culture. milestogo Dec 18 #9

Not for long. TickTock Joinfortmill Dec 18 #10

We'll have to undo this in 2029, too EnergizedLib Dec 18 #11

100% that! oasis Dec 18 #20

Not the Onion orangecrush Dec 18 #12

Yes, should have led with that... shelshaw Dec 18 #18

Yes, satire is dead. orangecrush Dec 18 #24

Why not go all out and rename it the Trump Center for the tacky and talentless? jls4561 Dec 18 #14

Kennedy Center renamed Trump-Kennedy Center lindalou65 Dec 18 #15

Fuck this Shit. spanone Dec 18 #17

Just more of his Bonwit Teller behavior. PSPS Dec 18 #19

When a Democrat wins in 2028 Boo1 Dec 18 #21

It takes an Act of Congress to change the name of the Kennedy Center LetMyPeopleVote Dec 18 #25

I wish this was an Onion headline MustLoveBeagles Dec 18 #26

Not surprised bucolic_frolic Dec 18 #27

Here are the Board Members (all appointed by Trump) who supposedly voted unanimously Wiz Imp Dec 18 #28

The Kennedy Center is still the Kennedy Cente LetMyPeopleVote Dec 18 #29