https://usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/18/trump-kennedy-center-takeover-white-house/87829719007/WASHINGTON ‒ The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington is now known as the the "Trump-Kennedy Center," according to the White House.The Kennedy Center's board of directors voted unanimously on Dec. 18 to rename the national music and cultural institution after President Donald Trump, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. The board, which Trump chairs, is made up of members handpicked by the president. Yet an official name change appears to require action from Congress. A law passed in 1964, months after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, established the construction of "a building to be designated as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts." The law did not grant the board authority to change its name.One month into his second term in office, Trump terminated the Kennedy Center's board and installed himself as the new chairman while tapping several political allies as new board members. Trump chose Ric Grenell, his envoy for special missions, as the center's president.
>Yet an official name change appears to require action from Congress.Non story
>>1467013How much is that going to cost taxpayers?
>>1467013totally not the act of a malignant narcissist.
OK. Now only one assassination is missing.
>>1467013According to one of the board members; this wasn't unanimous or even on the agenda. They literally just muted anyone on a voice call who dissented and said it passed lmao
>>1467071Yeah, I'd believe that.
>>1467029Trump has brought in googolplex dollars into the country by making other countries pay for tariffs so he should be allowed to have this one
>>1467071That's entirely on brand for trump, but I still want to see a source to confirm it.
>>1467071I would like to see this, if only to confirm how completely off the rails this administration is
>>1467082>https://x.com/RepBeatty/status/2001741402745524362And yes, she is on the board.>https://www.kennedy-center.org/about-us/leadership/trustees/
>>1467086How else was Trump supposed to get a unanimous agreement if she was allowed to dissent?
>>1467086>Trump stooge tells blatant, easily probably lie about something that doesn't matter to create controversy and distract from scandals and lies of the Trump administration that actually impact people's livesThis has been their favorite play since 2017Acknowledge Karoline Leavitt is a blatant liar whose word is worthless, like everyone who voluntarily associates with Donald Trump, then move back to the stories that matter, like Trump crashing the economy and having no idea what he's doing with Venezuela, Ukraine, Israel, or literally anything else
>>1467088*Easily provable lie, fucking autocorrect
>>1467027If he spends government money to change the signs, who will stop him?
>>1467114Nothing, but just like his department of war crimes name change, you can just change it back. Assuming he wasn't spiteful enough to destroy the department of defense signs.But given he destroyed all the planes for the clear skies treaty with russia so Biden couldn't reestablish it, he absolutely would.Either way, anything named after trump should have it removed
>>1467231>But given he destroyed all the planes for the clear skies treaty with russia so Biden couldn't reestablish it, he absolutely would.What?
>>1467071Literally fucking Russian behaviour.
