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moniss

(9,083 posts)
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 03:50 PM Dec 2025

"Kennedy Center renamed the 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says"

This is the headline from an article dated 12/18/25 from USA Today with a byline from Joey Garrison. Little surprise that they would "announce" this on the eve of the ordered release of Epstein material. Distractions abound. So he fired the board and installed himself and a group of boot lickers to the board. However the name was created by statute when originally formed and the statute does not give the board authorization to change the name.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/18/trump-kennedy-center-takeover-white-house/87829719007/

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"Kennedy Center renamed the 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says" (Original Post) moniss Dec 2025 OP
Next Dem prez has so many things to undo BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2025 #1
Indeed. nt moniss Dec 2025 #2
Damn right kwolf68 Dec 2025 #6
It's going to take a lot to get the smell of stupid out of the room! Initech Dec 2025 #9
Congress should undo that NOW C_U_L8R Dec 2025 #3
You can't create honor by trying to hijack it bucolic_frolic Dec 2025 #4
One more damn thing to undo. This one really pisses me off. JFK was a great man. Trump is a felon. Vinca Dec 2025 #5
More stolen valor. Irish_Dem Dec 2025 #7
Is that like The War Department or the Gulf of America? Perhaps it will soon be, Polly Hennessey Dec 2025 #8
It takes an Act of Congress to change the name of the Kennedy Center LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2025 #10
What a coincidence! I just renamed my compost pile The Trump Center For Smelly Refuse. tanyev Dec 2025 #11

kwolf68

(8,452 posts)
6. Damn right
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 04:13 PM
Dec 2025

Whoever it is better not play footsies with this shit. We need to de-North Korea the USA stat. Just as stuff can be renamed, it can be un-renamed. Trump is such a petulant narcissistic assturd having to put his name on every damn thing.

C_U_L8R

(49,426 posts)
3. Congress should undo that NOW
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 03:58 PM
Dec 2025

What a load of crap. Trump is the worst. Leaves his stain everywhere he goes.

Vinca

(54,106 posts)
5. One more damn thing to undo. This one really pisses me off. JFK was a great man. Trump is a felon.
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 04:10 PM
Dec 2025

Polly Hennessey

(8,874 posts)
8. Is that like The War Department or the Gulf of America? Perhaps it will soon be,
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 04:29 PM
Dec 2025

The United States of tRump: UST, UST - Make tRump Great Again. MTGA, MTGA.

LetMyPeopleVote

(180,478 posts)
10. It takes an Act of Congress to change the name of the Kennedy Center
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 05:27 PM
Dec 2025






https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/76i?utm#
20 U.S. Code § 76i - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
U.S. Code
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(a)In general
The Board shall construct for the Smithsonian Institution, with funds raised by voluntary contributions, a building to be designated as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on a site in the District of Columbia bounded by the Inner Loop Freeway on the east, the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge approaches on the south, Rock Creek Parkway on the west, New Hampshire Avenue and F Street on the north, which shall be selected for such purpose by the National Capital Planning Commission. The National Capital Planning Commission shall acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, lands necessary to provide for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and related facilities. Such building shall be in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Commission of Fine Arts
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tanyev

(49,379 posts)
11. What a coincidence! I just renamed my compost pile The Trump Center For Smelly Refuse.
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 06:23 PM
Dec 2025

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