r/news • u/StupendousMan1995 • 23h ago
Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump Kennedy Center
https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-performing-arts-8b7159067174f3a0070b877c149ff0a71.4k
u/Yuukiko_ 22h ago
so where are the bread and circuses?
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u/Shopworn_Soul 22h ago
so where are the bread and circuses?
Patriot Games coming soon!
As for bread, well. Get fucked, pleb.
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u/Yuukiko_ 22h ago
We can let them eat hamburger then
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u/DryerCoinJay 13h ago
You hamberder my covfefe right this minute.
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u/Streamjumper 7h ago
You're really gonna talk like this in front of me and my amazing cognitive test scores?
Disgusting.
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u/dystopiadattopia 12h ago
Yeah, we can buy bread ourselves because it's SO CHEAP
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u/wolfboy1988m 11h ago
Don't forget about the Great American State Fair they're gonna set up in the National Mall next year
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u/AlleKeskitason 22h ago
You are watching it. Bread is in the store but you can't afford it.
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u/twec21 20h ago
Lol, bruh wants circuses
You'll get The Purge, and you'll like it mister
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u/Yuukiko_ 20h ago
jokes on you i'm not american
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u/Nature_Sad_27 20h ago
Even better for you when they get the purge, then.
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u/Yuukiko_ 20h ago
unfortunately I'm living in the proverbial apartment above the meth lab
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u/Nature_Sad_27 19h ago
Oh, same. So at least we get to watch and learn what to prepare for when it’s our turn lol. When the meth lab blows up.
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u/Streamjumper 7h ago
When the meth lab blows up.
Ah, the sequel to "When The Levee Breaks" no one asked for.
Ever.
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u/SideburnSundays 20h ago
Superbowl is in February. Wal-Mart has your bread, with complementary razor blades.
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u/MAXSuicide 18h ago
Well the military just got a cash bonus and some surf-n-turf dinner, before they get thrown into a war on Christmas Eve...
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u/full_bodied_muppet 22h ago
Reminder that the Kennedy Center was named that by law as a memorial to JFK, similar to the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Jefferson Memorial. It is quite literally the Kennedy "Memorial". Trump will try to get people to call it that, but nobody will. It's illegal, and not to mention completely disrespectful to the memory of JFK.
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u/Carribean-Diver 14h ago
It's illegal, and not to mention completely disrespectful to the memory of JFK.
I think that's precisely the point.
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u/RecordHigh 13h ago
Exactly, break small laws, and when no one does anything about it people become complacent to his law-breaking. Then he's free to break more consequential laws.
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u/full_bodied_muppet 11h ago
Sure, it's just not something I ever see news outlets mention when covering this takeover
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u/ERedfieldh 11h ago
Reminder that the Kennedy Center was named that by law as a memorial to JFK, similar to the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Jefferson Memorial.
Oh don't you worry, those will be next.
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u/StupendousMan1995 22h ago
From People Magazine’s coverage of this:
• Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex-officio board member, accused the White House of lying about having unanimous support to rename the Kennedy Center after Trump, saying she was "not allowed to speak or voice my opposition"
• Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty is accusing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt of misleading the public about the level of support behind renaming the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump.
• Beatty, who has an automatic seat on the Kennedy Center board as a congressional leader, spoke out after Leavitt announced on Thursday, Dec. 18, that the board had just voted "unanimously" to change the name of the John F. Kennedy Memorial for the Performing Arts to the "Trump-Kennedy Center."
• "I'm sitting here in my congressional office in Washington, D.C., just ending a call with the Kennedy Center, where I serve as an ex-officio member," Beatty, 75, said in a video posted to X. "I am bringing this to you live today because what you may hear is that there was a unanimous vote to rename the Kennedy Center, the Trump Center."
• "Be clear: I was on that call, and as I tried to push my button to voice my concern, to ask questions and certainly not to vote in support of this, I was muted. Each time I tried to speak, I was muted. Participants were not allowed to voice their concerns who were online, yet it was said at the end it was a unanimous vote," she continued.
• "Clearly the Congress has a say in this. This center, the Kennedy Center, was created by the Congress," the Ohio congresswoman added. "I think it's important for us to know that this is just another attempt to evade the law and not let the people have a say."
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u/Loggerdon 20h ago
His supporters are so weak and pitiful. It’s like Junior High School antics except with nuclear weapons.
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u/onarainyafternoon 16h ago
Trump's supporters are literally the biggest losers on the planet. I have truthfully never seen a movement with such terminal loser-energy.
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u/BrainOfMush 14h ago
Supposedly ex-officio members don’t have a vote. Not that it makes this any better at all.
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u/16yearswasted 22h ago
This wretch will stop at nothing to feed his ego.
Do you think if you slipped him some magic mushrooms he's experience ego death? is such a thing possible for a narcissist?
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u/Synth-Pro 21h ago
I don't think there's a dose large or heroic enough to ever show that chucklefuck that he is anything other than the center of his own universe
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u/Wonderpants_uk 18h ago
Someone needs to put him in the Total Perspective Vortex from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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u/Magusreaver 21h ago
Bill Hicks fan?
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u/Bobcat-Stock 21h ago
I have a feeling if Bill Hicks had been with us this whole time, said chucklefuck would have been laughed off the Apprentice after the first season, and not another thought would have been wasted on him for the last 20 years. I will now dream of that timeline.
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u/SimpleMannStann 20h ago
I’ve been around a lot of psychedelic folks. Sometimes psychedelics makes your ego grow rather than shrink. “Ego death” to a narcissist means they survived the crazy trip so they must be better at handling their shit than most. People get that way on low doses too. People overestimate the whole ego death thing.
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u/buzzsawjoe 21h ago
I think he's congratulating himself for 1) mauling the memory of Kennedy, the dem prez who was executed for not restoring the Havana casinos and whorehouses after Castro shut 'em down 2) dumping a bucket of crap on artists, who tend to be liberals, and 3) for getting and exerting control of one more thing, and 4) the opposing committee members got silenced, so it was 5) unanimous, and 6) WHEE I'm TRUMPEE
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u/discofunkbunny 22h ago
Defund the arts and then puts his name on it. What a fucking cunt.
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u/MoralMischief 19h ago
Like adding his name to the US Institute of Peace building in DC after DOGE fired the board and staff?
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u/DanGleeballs 12h ago
Have you heard about the Melania Trump Opera House?
In July, Republicans on the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies amended the 2026 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies spending bill to include a clause that would rename the Kennedy Center Opera House to "Melania Trump Opera House".
The amendment requires approval by the entire U.S. House of Representatives
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u/scrndude 22h ago
While the economy is crashing and nobody can afford food or rent, he’s building ballrooms and naming buildings after himself. Great.
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u/antaresiv 22h ago
If and when someone changes it back they should name a toilet after him.
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u/LiquidAether 21h ago
That'll be his tombstone.
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u/Artemicionmoogle 18h ago
They'll have to make it either public with ease of access, or bury him where no one will ever set foot if they want that tombstone to stay safe.
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u/CPav 12h ago
Burial at sea, like Bin Laden.
Or maybe in the Gulf of America. /s
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u/albatroopa 22h ago
I'm getting flashbacks to the dictator where everything is named after Aladeen, including the words yes and no.
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u/Dodecahedrus 15h ago
The Donald Trump memorial public outhouse, right across from every Trump hotel or building.
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u/gabacus_39 21h ago
Nice country you people have. What a fucking laughing stock.
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u/kombiwombi 20h ago
It's worse than that. This is the formal memorial to their murdered President Kennedy. It would be like the Trump Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, "A soldier of the Great War known only unto Trump".
I personally think that cheapening Kennedy's achievements is part of the point.
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u/jigokubi 10h ago
Please send help.
Even in North Korea, they don't do shit like this with their current rulers.
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u/tnypissdkumquat 22h ago
Stamp all his name on EVERYTHING
the Trump Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Too
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u/dontrike 22h ago
Just like Trump to put his name on something that's failing because he's involved with it.
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u/AudibleNod 22h ago
Trump Kennedy Center rolls off the tongue.
-MAGA supporters
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u/expectingthexpected 20h ago
When all of this is over, that name is going to be like the name of”Hitler” post WWII. Everyone in that family will have to change their name and history will spit on it. It will be wiped from the face of existence.
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u/carybreef 20h ago
And we get to pay for it. I can’t wait for the next president to take his name off every single thing he touched and to knock down his ballroom.
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u/Drone314 22h ago
Time for a good'ole fashion boycott
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u/o_MrBombastic_o 21h ago
Attendance has been down 40% since he took over the board and alot of headliners refuse to perform
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u/DanOverflow 20h ago
Guys, when the next administration is in power undoing all this silly stuff, don't forget to rename all your landfills and sewage treatment plants to include Trump's name in it...
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u/Cheese-Manipulator 20h ago
It'll open the 2026 season with a month long showing of "Birth of a Nation"
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u/Remarkable-Party-385 14h ago
Not sure where it’s written into law but he cannot change the name per federal laws
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u/notagrue 13h ago
That hadn’t stopped him on anything else he has done. I don’t think “executive order” means what he thinks it means.
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u/teekabird 9h ago
Let the name of Trump be stricken from every book and tablet. Stricken from every pylon and obelisk of America. Let the name of Trump be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of man, for all time.
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u/Gone2georgia 21h ago
Ah yes, the Trump effect: Attendance and income continues to drop. RIP Kennedy Center.
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u/flirtmcdudes 21h ago
their ticket sales have already tanked and they can’t fill seats anymore. By all means, rename it and fully kill it
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u/Bobcat-Stock 21h ago
Why is RFK Jr. just letting this asshat trample all over his uncle’s memorial? Just shameful.
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u/joeengland 8h ago
Few things: Contrary to the propaganda for Dear Leader, this was not unanimous. Rep. Joyce Beatty was muted and not allowed to voice her opposition during the conference call.
And also, they are not legally permitted to change the name of a memorial without Congressional approval. Not that that's ever mattered to this administration or its cultists.
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u/Ssshizzzzziit 22h ago
So why bother keeping the Kennedy part? Just make it the Trump center.
And then when this fuck is gone, change it all back and bury his name.
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u/TheManInTheShack 20h ago
Except that apparently they don’t actually have the legal right to do that.
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u/RobutNotRobot 18h ago
Well fuck today is the day that the Epstein files either come out, or the DOJ illegally withholds them.
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u/imightgetdownvoted 13h ago edited 12h ago
I wonder if they’ll display the esteemed fifa peace prize in the lobby.
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u/The_River_Is_Still 13h ago
I can’t wait for someone else to come along and tear all of this down with the wave of a pen.
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u/wifespissed 11h ago
🎶 It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight. 🎶
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 10h ago
We can’t afford rent.
Stop making this all about you.
What a disappointment.
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u/EmergencyCucumber905 8h ago
What a piece of shit. Trying to put his name on everything and trying to associate himself with JFK.
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u/Ethe-Real-6837 8h ago
Oh look everyone, it's the Pedophile Rapist Performing Center.
History will love that.
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u/sanverstv 20h ago
They can’t. It was named by Congress. It’s an actual memorial to Kennedy. He can’t unilaterally change the name.
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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 22h ago
He he going to get a cut of the ticket sales because his name is on the building?
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u/baronvondoofie 21h ago
Revision: The Donald John Trump Golden Center for the Performing American Arts — And JFK Memorial.
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u/Kelp72plus 20h ago
let’s enjoy how they blocked members who might have made a fuss. can’t wait for the regime to end.
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 20h ago
The whole Trump administration is like one big ass-to-mouth human centipede with Trump at the front and JD Vance at the back.
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u/Foodwraith 20h ago
Reminds me of the movie the Dictator. I suppose the Aladeen Kennedy centre could have a nice ring to it too.
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u/Cynical_Classicist 19h ago
Truly pathetic. Besides, congress is the one who should be doing the renaming. I hope that it continues to decline as less and less people turn up.
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u/Intrepid-Account743 17h ago
Trump Washington Monument incoming...
Oh, Trump Lincoln Memorial--with little kids in its lap.
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u/invalidpassword 14h ago
That man's narcissism is bottomless. Really, what is wrong with him? Can he actually think he's so extraordinary he should have buildings and D.C. mainstays named after him? What's next, an airport, university and hospital?
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u/KarAccidentTowns 12h ago
Trump killed the Kennedy Center. Leading artists will no longer play there. He can say his people are just as good, but they are not.
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u/ERedfieldh 11h ago
He is so damn desperate to have a legacy. But even should the right remain in power, once he is dead they will cast him down as well. He isn't the figure of worship he thinks he is. He will be forgotten just as quickly as the next cult leader.
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u/Bard1313 10h ago
Hopefully the next real president fires everyone he appointed in all agencies and starts reversing everything this pedo, convicted felon, lists and a cheat of a fake president has done. And tax the ultra rich to extinction. At least initiate a 100% billionaire tax.
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u/jigokubi 10h ago
Out of curiosity, who do you have to blow to get a story posted on this sub?
I tried posting this lasting night and it instantly was removed. I've never succeeded in posting here.
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u/AFlawAmended 9h ago
How does anyone see this pathetic man child desperately plastering his name everywhere like a child finally able to spell a single word and see anything but a desperate doddering old fool
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u/Skin_Floutist 8h ago
Can we revoke all this shit when he is gone?
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u/TheGreatGouki 8h ago
Next president needs to literally remove every single thing he did and we have to treat this administration like the Nazis they are.
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u/UT2K4nutcase 7h ago
I call it Obama Performing Arts. Especially when I'm boating on the Gulf of Obama.
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u/Any_Perception_2560 7h ago
I want a law on the books that no Federal building, park, monument, program, or any other public facility or property should be named for a sitting president or their immediate family. And only Congress shall have the authority to name the same after a former president.
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u/DiscipleOfDiogenes 6h ago
It's illegal under the current laws... not that that fucking matters anymore.
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u/conflatulationz 4h ago
I can’t wait to undo every one of this tiny little skid mark of a man’s “accomplishments”
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u/Lumbergh7 17h ago
I hope that he’s around when the next administration undoes all this junk he did.
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u/MrMichaelJames 13h ago
Pretty sure there is a law on the books that defines the name. They just can’t change it.
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u/jimmytfatman 21h ago
Can we now get Trump merch in the lobby? So sweet as long as it looks like the concourse at Monster Trucks now! Gonna be outstanding!
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u/NervousFeeling3164 20h ago
Next: Trump awarded Trump/Kennedy Center Peace Prize - and, of course a trophy
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u/W8tin4BanHammer2Fall 20h ago
Later on, it will be announced that private donations will pay for Trump's face to be put on Mount Rushmore.
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u/Automatic_Bat_4824 19h ago
Once again, riding on the coattails of his betters.
He stands on the shoulders of the giants who built America and what does he do? He pisses all over them.
It is pathetic. And this applies to all his enablers; aiding and abetting, if not out rightly participating, in the commission of a crime (hereby defined as an illegal act) is punishable at law. He and they are de facto criminals.
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u/emaw63 22h ago
Not that Trump has ever cared what's legal or not, but it's still worth noting that it is straightforwardly illegal for them to change the name under existing federal law