Trump-Picked Board Renames Kennedy Center

Friday, December 19, 2025

President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted Thursday ...

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 07:30 AM | 34 COMMENTS | permalink

BAIER: The Kennedy Center board voted today to rename the Kennedy Center the Trump-Kennedy Center. Is that going to fly up here? THUNE: Ahh -- I just heard about it. And so obviously we are just starting to process that announcement.

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-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Dec 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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Question Askers-Screening: A lot of people have accused you of being narcissistic.
Sandy Bates: No, I know. People think that I'm egotistical and narcissistic, but it's not true. I-I uh I... As a matter of fact, if I did identify with a Greek mythological character, it would not be Narcissus.
Question Askers-Screening: Who would it be?
Sandy Bates: Zeus.

(Woody Allen, Stardust Memories)

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-18 01:55 PM

Thanks magat scum

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-18 01:58 PM

... rename Washington's leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center ...

I'm surprised it took this long before he changed the name ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-18 01:58 PM

Why put his name on this facility? It doesn't even have a massive data center being built underneath!

#4 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-18 02:00 PM

Let's ask BELLRINGER id Trump is crazy?

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-18 02:05 PM

@#4 ... Why put his name on this facility? ...

My guess is that he likes putting his name on things.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-18 02:06 PM

Let's ask BELLRINGER if Trump is crazy?

#5 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2025-12-18

The "id" of my first post was Freudian.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-18 02:06 PM

WH press flak Karoline Leavitt, enthused on X : "Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future!" (newrepublic.com)

President John F. Kennedy was murdered in 1963.
For the past 62-years he has been what he will forever be: stone cold dead.
Would someone in MAGAtLand please inform Ms. Leavitt?

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-18 02:12 PM

@#6 ... WH press flak Karoline Leavitt, enthused on X : "Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future!" ...

If Pres Trump wants to latch on to a Kennedy, maybe it would be more appropriate to latch on to RF Kennedy, Jr.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-18 02:15 PM

My guess is that he likes putting his name on things.

The Space Center is next.

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-18 02:23 PM

At least it's only 5 letters to remove as soon as he's gone.

#11 | Posted by qcp at 2025-12-18 02:25 PM

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-18 02:50 PM

Karoline Leavitt, enthused on X : "Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump

He didn't do anything.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-18 02:57 PM

They should call it the Trumpstein Rapeatorium.

#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-18 03:16 PM

How can he possibly be allowed to just name everything after himself. This is just stupid.

#15 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-12-18 05:23 PM

How can he possibly be allowed to just name everything after himself.

Technically, he didn't name it after himself. He just hand picked a board of directors and told them to do it.

It's pretty banana republic stuff.

#16 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-18 05:28 PM

Why House Democrats haven't united to impeach Dummkopf Trumpf in 2025 is beyond me. A few attempts starting in June were all quashed with the help of fellow Democrats.

"Oh, this snake won't ever bite me, so let it alone."

"That wildfire won't ever reach my house."

"Trumpf's only asking for an inch, so let him have it."

"They'll never come for me."

Link:

23 Dems Back GOP

#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-18 05:43 PM

It's pretty banana republic stuff.
#2 | Posted by REDIAL

Well when you sponsor shows like "Dragtastic Dress-up" marketed to under-18yo the reaction is going to go extremely the other direction.

Not surprisingly, Lumpers and Canadians alike have no idea how extremism is created on both sides of the aisle.

#18 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-18 05:46 PM

"Well when you sponsor shows like "Dragtastic Dress-up" marketed to under-18yo the reaction is going to go extremely the other direction."

Anybody who looks at drag queens and immediately thinks of sex with children, didn't need the drag queens to get there.

#19 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-18 05:49 PM

Not surprisingly, Lumpers and Canadians alike have no idea how extremism is created on both sides of the aisle.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut

Not surprisingly, you try to turn it into a DuuuuuuHhHhHH LumPerZ nonsense because you're a stupid pile of s*&^.

#20 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-18 05:59 PM

All while ignoring the obvious fact that we've become a banana republic.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-18 06:00 PM

extremism is created on both sides of the aisle

LOL

American left extremism = lets have universal healthcare.
American right extremism = let's deport naturalized citizens, and use ICE as the gestapo.

BOTH SIDES! *drink*

#22 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-18 06:02 PM

...both sides of the aisle.
#4 | Posted by oneironaut

Please show me anywhere in history that a sitting Dem President named something after themself.

#23 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-12-18 06:48 PM

"Congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future!" ...

I hope Millard Fillmore's fee-fees didn't get hurt.

#24 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-18 07:27 PM

#9 | Posted by TFDNihilist

Surely, you do not expect a competent answer from ironskull...

#25 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-12-18 09:30 PM

The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" was enacted by Public Law 88-260 by https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-upon-signing-bill-concerning-the-john-f-kennedy- center-for-the-performing-arts by President Johnson.

Changing the name required an act of Congress. The Board has no power to change the name.

#26 | Posted by et_al at 2025-12-18 10:17 PM

@#16 ... Changing the name required an act of Congress ...

Is that similar to trying to change the name of the Dept of Defense to the Dept of War?

#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-18 10:23 PM

Sorry, -- the formatting.

#28 | Posted by et_al at 2025-12-18 10:25 PM

#17

Don't know. However, the change to Kennedy was a specific amendment of the Act establishing the "National Cultural Center" signed by President Eisenhower.

#29 | Posted by et_al at 2025-12-18 10:32 PM

@#18 ... Sorry, -- the formatting. ...

Been there. :)

@#19

I've heard reports that Congress needs to act to change that name. Beyond those reports, I do not know.

#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-18 10:35 PM

@#20 ... that name ...

"that name" means Department of Defense.

I should have been more specific.

oops.

#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-18 10:37 PM

And the Board members were, of course, Trump appointees.