Dotard Renames Kennedy Center

Thursday, December 18, 2025

President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington's leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the vote on social media, saying it was because of the "unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. Not only from the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially, and its reputation." Trump, a Republican, often refers to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is named for a Democratic predecessor, as the "Trump Kennedy Center."

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

Thanks magat scum

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

... 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 | Reply

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 | Reply

Let's ask BELLRINGER id Trump is crazy?

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

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-18 02:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

They should call it the Trumpstein Rapeatorium.

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

"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.

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

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.

#16 | Posted by et_al at 2025-12-18 10:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#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?

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

Sorry, FU the formatting.

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

#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.

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

@#18 ... Sorry, FU 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.

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

@#20 ... that name ...

"that name" means Department of Defense.

I should have been more specific.

oops.

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

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

All he needs to do now is figure out how to appoint the Nobel Prize voters.

#22 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-18 10:56 PM | Reply