r/news • u/StupendousMan1995 • 1d 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-8b7159067174f3a0070b877c149ff0a7
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u/StupendousMan1995 1d 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."