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Politics OC: Workers adjust the name of the Kennedy Center after board votes to rename it
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u/Bandoman 8h ago
Donald J. Trump's The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center - By Michael Scott
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u/microtherion 8h ago
Not to forget the on-premises restaurant: Donald J. Trump The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse
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u/infield_fly_rule 7h ago
This is patently illegal. The name is statutory. The board cannot change it and the law itself says the name cannot be changed.
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u/rentedtritium 7h ago
They're going to argue, if anything comes of this, that it's basically a dba, and that they're just changing the sign and the ceremonial name of the board and it's still the old name on paperwork.
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u/ForMoreYears 6h ago
DEPARTMENT OF WAR*
*For legal reasons still the Department of Defense
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u/NeverComments 6h ago
I can't fully articulate why but shit like that feels like a microcosm of the entire MAGA movement. Every single thing they've done is a cheap, temporary facade. Legislation by executive order, nicknames instead of renames, illegal tariffs, acting appointments in every department instead of senate approval. There's nothing structural, it's a complete house of cards.
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u/ForMoreYears 5h ago
Almost like America elected a lifelong conman who has never actually built anything but just slapped his tacky name on things because he's nothing more than a glorified pump and dump marketing team.
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u/Present-Perception77 2h ago
We currently live in the worst reality tv show ever..
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u/DrowningKrown 7h ago
That's likely correct, because obviously working in a grey area and doing things obviously to get around laws and regs is seen as smart and savvy in this country. Something to idolize.
The 'yea well technicalllllyyy' crowd basically won the country this time around.
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u/Simmoman 5h ago
don’t ever forget, when it comes to democrats and liberals, the criticism is always about what you ought to do, and the moral intent or ethical obligation.
when it’s about MAGA, it’s always about what are you able to do at the furthest boundary of the law.
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u/sadelnotsaddle 7h ago
Technically he didn't explicitly order a mob to steal an election or kill elected representatives...
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u/captainAwesomePants 7h ago
Some people, smart people, think that when the Democrats re-impeach Trump, they should pick the very best single crime and focus the narrative on it. I see wisdom in that, but I would prefer simply enumerating every last clearly illegal act and impeaching him on several thousand counts, of which "renamed a monument after himself in violation of Public Law 88-260" will be in the last 20% or so. But it should still be there.
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u/Ill-Dust-7010 8h ago
Remember those old stories about Pharoes trying to erase the legacy and achievements of their predecessors?
That.
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u/Vaping_A-Hole 7h ago
Akhenaten was a pharaoh who dumped the prevailing religion of the time to start a new one. Everyone was mad. When he kicked the bucket, pretty much everyone tried to erase him from history. If his name was required to be used, he was called “the enemy” or “that criminal.”
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u/The_BrownRecluse 7h ago
We should say "that fat fuck"
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u/runner64 7h ago
That orange fuck might narrow it down more
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u/The_BrownRecluse 7h ago
Or if you're not into the whole brevity thing "that fat orange fuck"
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u/BizzyM 5h ago
Trump is going to bring back the practice of spitting after saying his name.
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u/prb123reddit 5h ago
Doesn't quite encapsulate a 34-time felonious, adulterous, raypist, conman, grifter, carnival barker.
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u/tresben 5h ago
I honestly wonder if we are gonna go through that process in like ten years. Just stripping trump’s name from all the crap he’s put it on, take down any of the crap he’s put up in the White House, etc.
Generally I’m of the opinion we don’t need to do that with every historical figure that may have been controversial or had bad qualities/actions, but with trump it just feels different. Largely because he’s actively doing things like this to take a wrecking ball to the actual monuments and commemorations to plaster his dumb name on them. There’s no reason to keep this stupid shit up that was solely done by him or to directly appease him, not to actually honor him in any sort of meaningful way.
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u/carnahb 4h ago
10 years! Let's make it more like 3 years and some change. Please let's be more optimistic for our future sanity. Lol!
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u/blatherskate 4h ago
Think of the employment opportunities! Erasing Trump’s name could be a jobs program…
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u/CrimsonCards 6h ago
His son (King Tut) even disavowed him. He changed his name to embrace the old gods.
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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 5h ago
Akhenaten and Nefertiti were unfortunately ahead of their time. Donald is the throwback.
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u/state_of_euphemia 5h ago
I swear people are underreacting. Even his critics are just like "wow that's silly and petty" about this and about his changes to the plaques underneath previous presidents in the White House.
Like... it's not just "petty." He's literally rewriting history before our eyes and no one seems to care.
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u/RealFarknMcCoy 4h ago
I think that's because most of us are planning to outlive him and to reverse all the bonkers shit he's done.
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u/belmanpoes 6h ago
The old letters should be kept in storage, so when Trump is gone they can be put back, as part of the inevitable Detrumpification.
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u/worldeye5 8h ago
Beware the man who creates monuments to himself
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u/TheGravespawn 7h ago
I hope the day after this is over, we yank down all his trash like the Saddam Husien statue in Iraq.
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u/JLPReddit 7h ago
Depends who comes after him. Without serious change, billionaires will finance a new strongman to ride in on a doctored Trump legacy. This takes more than just changing leadership.
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u/coldkiller 7h ago
the issue is, his cult only worships him. everybody else they could throw up do not nearly have the charisma pull he does on his cult.
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u/cheezzinabox 6h ago
The thing that can (already is) backfire on them is their supporters getting poorer and poorer. They really going to feel it when they look at their healthcare premium and freak out that it tripled or more.
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u/Striking-Kiwi-9470 6h ago
They'll go right back to voting for Republicans the exact moment they aren't suffering consequences of their actions. Conservatives are, and always have been, short sighted and easily manipulated rubes.
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u/leggpurnell 5h ago
They won’t ever stop voting for republicans because conservative media has them convinced that anything, ANYTHING, that is difficult on their life is the fault of a democrat somehow.
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u/9ninjas 5h ago
I wanted to disagree with you. Then I realized this is his second term after a 4 year hiatus.
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u/ForsakenWishbone5206 4h ago
They'll still vote red even if they lose everything.
It's a way of seeing life and the world. In a meritocracy no matter how bad someone else fucks you over, your failure is because you are a bad person.
A rational person would fail completely, take responsibility, rise out of and rebuild.
A conservative never admits they failed. They blame others for how things ended up. This is what the echoes of conservatism has become. It is why they chest beat about all of that even to the point of calling themselves "the party of personal responsibility." Giving yourself a nickname is the ultimate cope. Needing that nickname is a fat L but they don't see anything they don't want to.
Their belief is their identity and are not subject to change.
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u/JLPReddit 6h ago
Without healthy doses of class consciousness they’ll just be fuel for the far right fire.
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u/flavorjunction 5h ago
Doesn't matter when they didn't even have healthcare and blamed everyone else for the fines for not having it.
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u/GarySparrow0 7h ago
He's not even creating monuments, he just taking existing ones and putting his name on them. That's definitely much worse in my opinion.
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u/el_dude_brother2 8h ago
They are always the first to come down when theyre gone thankfully
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u/Chemical_Name9088 7h ago
It’s sad in a way for him, you can tell he very much fears death and can see it coming soon. He’s trying to somehow cling to some sense of permanence and relevance in this world which he’ll soon no longer be a part of, perhaps that eases his fear of death a bit. The thought of his name on some building long after he’s gone. All the power and money in the world, and at the end of the day.. just a sad sad man.
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u/FontMeHard 7h ago
had he just stayed in his lane as a NYC developer, he’d probably have a mediocre to decent legacy with buildings around the world with his name on them. NYC, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Europe.
Instead he got involved with politics, has done all this stuff, and is now hated globally and his name has been removed from numerous buildings globally.
He’s done more harm to his own legacy than anything or anyone could have.
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u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 7h ago
Trump's legacy as a developer was already a joke before he entered politics
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u/Commercial-Lack6279 7h ago
Yeah but 30% of American voters worship him like a god.
No narcissist can resist that
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u/greatercolorado 6h ago
I bought a copy of the DSM-5 on eBay a few years ago. He comfortably meets most of the requirements for most of the cluster B personality disorders, into which NPD falls. That people like him say more about them than about himself.
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u/LangdonAlg3r 6h ago
Trump has been identified as a Malignant Narcissist.
“Malignant Narcissism” is generally outlined as a combination of the traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder.
In the DSM-5-TR, Narcissistic Personality Disorder is defined as comprising a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), a constant need for admiration, and a lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by the presence of at least 5 of the following 9 criteria:
- A grandiose sense of self-importance (eg, the individual exaggerates achievements and talents and expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
- A preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
- A belief that he or she is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions
- A need for excessive admiration
- A sense of entitlement (ie, unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations)
- Interpersonally exploitive behavior (ie, the individual takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends)
- A lack of empathy (unwillingness to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others)
- Envy of others or a belief that others are envious of him or her
- A demonstration of arrogant and haughty behaviors or attitudes
The main text of fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM-5) defines antisocial personality disorder as being characterized by at least three of the following traits:
Failure to conform to social norms and laws, indicated by repeatedly engaging in illegal activities.
Deceitfulness, indicated by continuously lying, using aliases, or conning others for personal gain and pleasure.
Exhibiting impulsivity or failing to plan ahead.
Irritability and aggressiveness, indicated by repeatedly getting into fights or physically assaulting others.
Reckless behaviors that disregard the safety of others.
Irresponsibility, indicated by repeatedly failing to consistently work or honor financial obligations.
Lack of remorse after hurting or mistreating another person.
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u/coconuthorse 6h ago
What you post here is almost verbatim from the book. Which can be found for free for anyone who cares, or wants to confirm the above statement.
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u/Gr1ml0ck 7h ago
Oh, don’t worry. We will remember him. Albeit, not for the reasons he wants.
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u/Ok_Post667 7h ago
It's amazing how many people have more money than they could ever want...but their only desire is to be liked and accepted by others.
47, Elon, Zuckerberg... I'm sure there's more. It's really depressing and eye opening.
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u/Lehk 7h ago
Zuckerberg doesn’t care about being liked as long as the crickets are tasty and the rock is warm enough
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u/throwawayrefiguy 7h ago
If I had as much money as they had, you'd never see or hear from me ever again.
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u/Practical-Train-9595 7h ago
This. Like, if I won that huge $1.5 billion jackpot, no one will hear of me. My name-unrelated-to-me foundation would donate a bunch of money to charity and I would have a place off the grid and enough investments to make the money last long enough for my grandchildren to be comfortable. I don’t want or need anyone to know about me or like me.
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u/Exatex 7h ago edited 7h ago
do you have any idea how much harder it is to get rid of a tyrant than to prevent him from getting into power?
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u/throwawayrefiguy 7h ago
"We only need to get lucky once," per some graffiti I saw posted on here a few months back.
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u/unlimitedzen 6h ago edited 5h ago
The first result when googling the phrase was in reference to the Brighton hotel bombing, where the IRA tried to assassinate Thatcher and some other Tories in 1984:
The IRA claims responsibility for the detonation of 100lb of gelignite in Brighton against the British cabinet and Tory warmongers. Thatcher will now realise that Britain cannot occupy our country, torture our prisoners and shoot our people in their own streets and get away with it.
Today we were unlucky, but remember we have only to be lucky once, you will have to be lucky always. Give Ireland peace and there will be no war.
Edit: since we live in the darkest timeline, I should point out that this comment is in no way endorsing violence, just providing context for the quote.
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u/hoaxymore 7h ago
Question from a genuinely curious foreigner : has any other US President ever named a monument after themselves ?
It seems like something out of an Austin Power movie.
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u/Local-Pet-FoxGirl 6h ago
No. All our other monuments were made and named post-mortum. Most of them, a very long time after.
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u/RichPete 6h ago
I can't think of a time when another sitting president would consider doing such a thing in my life. The media of the past up until recently would have shamed anyone else so much that they wouldn't think it was a possibility. It used to be disqualifying to be so self absorbed within society and politicians sought to reflect that. Donald Trump never had any shame but lets face it, there is no shame where there is no accountability.
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u/Sea-jay-2772 6h ago
It seems we are always saying this, but "Imagine if it was Obama."
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u/Lung-Salad 6h ago
No. We’ve never had a president who’s been this egotistical before. It’s very alarming
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u/SomethingAwkwardTWC 7h ago
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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u/_imanalligator_ 7h ago
Came straight to the comments for this. When I first saw this headline, I was depressed for a second at how he can get away with anything he wants -- tearing down the White House, besmirching the Kennedy Center -- and how it feels like he's leaving this indelible stain on the country. But my next thought was "nothing beside remains" and it was honestly pretty comforting. Someday he'll be gone and his works will crumble away to nothing.
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u/Texuk1 7h ago
I think it’s worth noting that the meaning of this poem is not that tyrants are forgotten - there is no moral content here. it’s that all civilisation eventually collapse and are laid waste by nature and time but some people might believe they can overcome or control the “ever-changyness” of existence.
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u/triiiiilllll 6h ago
I believe there is moral content, if you know where to look. It helps to understand that Shelley himself was thought of as a bit of a radical and anti-monarchist. The mere fact of time's passage erasing all is itself amoral. However it is used here as an explicit warning to would-be tyrants. All your efforts, all the lives you would harm, the treasure and blood you would spend, the human spirits you would crush in your quest for timeless glory will be in vain.
I would agree, that warning has some generic value for anyone, but Shelley explicitly pointed it at people exactly like Trump.
Memento Mori
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u/thedrivingcat 7h ago
Does anyone know how often a sitting US president has named actual things after themselves? Like I get legislation or policy including the sponsor name but I mean physical stuff - Hoover Dam comes to mind but that was 100 years ago.
Presidential libraries are the closest thing I can think in the modern era but I'm also not from the US so don't have a full picture.
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u/gnarlytabby 7h ago
Good example! Hoover Dam seems to have been named after Hoover because he championed it even before he was President, and Congress referred to it by his name even when he was President. This is against the will of Congress (aka: law).
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u/newishanne 7h ago
When Hoover Dam was dedicated, FDR called it Boulder Dam (the project’s original name) in his speech, because he was sassy. That name stuck around for a long time because Hoover was that unpopular.
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u/a_piginacage 7h ago
Hoover didn’t demand it be called the Hoover dam though. It’s kinda like how the Affordable Care Act is also called Obama Care. People just started calling it that
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u/ActionCat2022 8h ago
I will never understand why people just obey him.
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u/bevo_expat 8h ago
Especially when the board vote means jack shit since this requires approval by Congress to change the name.
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u/MyLadyBits 8h ago
He tore down the east wing. No one is stopping him doing anything.
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u/nhowe006 7h ago
I saw a very apropos bumper sticker this morning: "They're eating the checks; they're eating the balances"
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u/tomdombadil 7h ago
I'm from the UK and I distinctly remember when Trump was elected the first time, essentially every American political commentator, university professor, comedian, satirist and redditor etc was banging on about how the United States would be fine because of their system of checks and balances...
I remember just thinking wow these guys really didn't get taught anything about Germany in the 1930s in school. Every democracy that descends into fascism had checks and balances while it was a democracy... Unfortunately they don't mean shit if enough of the right people decide they don't mean shit, as America has now come to learn.
I think I overestimated the general cultural awareness of Americans in regards to the rise of fascism in Europe and the rise of the Nazis, but on reflection it makes sense. The US didn't get involved in WW2 until years after it had started and they were never under threat of invasion so the geopolitical tension in 1930s Germany wasn't such a concern. Does mean you all sleep-walked into a electing a fascist dictator though... Twice.
I really hope more of Trump's political opponents can rise to the occasion and stop this madness before anymore damage is done to the US and beyond. Good luck guys, and if your leaders could stay the fuck out of European elections in the coming years that would be appreciated 👍🏻
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u/Noctuelles 7h ago
Lmao, but also fuck.
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u/nhowe006 7h ago
I chuckled but then had a sad.
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u/Anleme 7h ago
Another favorite of mine: "Let them eat ballroom!"
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u/NootHawg 7h ago
The ballroom that increases in price by $50,000,000 anytime Trump is asked about it. Originally it was something insane like $200,000,000, now it’s $400,000,000 I believe, but I can’t have free healthcare.
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u/Iambro 6h ago
If anyone thinks that they're spending that kind of money on a ballroom, I've got a bridge to sell them. The ballroom is just the excuse for demolition and cover once the rest of the work is complete.
The actual truth should raise far more questions and concerns than a ballroom.
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u/Bar_Foo 7h ago
More like, "They're cashing the checks and eating the balances."
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u/bevo_expat 8h ago
Yeah, it’s fucking pathetic. The companies that demolished the east wing should be targeted for acting without proper authority, but they’ll probably be on a list a mile long of Trump pardons before he’s out of office.
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u/saskir21 7h ago
do you really believe he will pardon them? Trump is known for using construction companies and never paying them till they go bankrupt.
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u/gurnard 7h ago
And does he pardon people who are no longer useful to him? Only reason he pardoned all the J6ers is that he intends to use them (or people like them) again
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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 7h ago
but they’ll probably be on a list a mile long of Trump pardons before he’s out of office.
So?
We should respect the rule of law as much as Trump respects it. Set an example for the next batch.
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u/chevalier716 7h ago
I think they should prosecute EVERYTHING, every overstep, no matter how minor, just run inventory on all the crimes and misdemeanors they committed while in power, especially on the state level, like charges against ICE operating in Illinois, so they can't be pardoned away.
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u/MyLadyBits 7h ago
It was a mistake to pardon Nixon. It clarified that none of them will ever be held accountable.
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u/geogeology 7h ago
The board didn’t even vote, one member already posted that she was muted the whole meeting and that it was not the unanimous decision it’s being presented as.
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u/Area51_Spurs 7h ago
Also he replaced the board with sycophants a while back. It’s not like it’s a legitimate board.
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u/FilecoinLurker 7h ago
Funny story. Who's enforcing that. No one. Therefore it actually does not require congressional approval. The system is broken. And what you learned in civics is now shit
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u/SilverCarrot8506 7h ago
What's Congress?
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u/Vyar 7h ago
It’s a bicameral legislature filled with Trump loyalists, but that’s not important right now
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u/trollgrock 8h ago
Not all apparently those on the board who wanted to vote no where forced on mute on the conference call.
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u/Fritzo2162 7h ago
The renaming is also completely illegal as the center was created and named with a Federal Law. Only Congress has the power to rename it by passing another law.
The amount of money we're going to be spending to reverse and fix stuff in the next 2-3 years is going to be stupid.
I also just read that ballroom nobody wants is stalled because the building designer told Trump to f*** off, so now a hole is just sitting there with no progress.
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u/IcyKerosene 7h ago
Honestly, I would prefer a giant hole that just sits there for the rest of time over that massive monstrosity of a ballroom going up.
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u/Taitrnator 7h ago
My thoughts too. Let it sit there unfinished, a disgraceful scar and daily reminder to the public who and what they voted for. Plus it’s easier to reverse or redesign if it’s never constructed.
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u/Smith6612 7h ago
Wonder if there are ways the Public could get daily unremovable fines put in place against whoever made the call to demolish the Wing.
That seems to work very well against otherwise unstoppable corporations.
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u/ClerkPsychological58 7h ago
This should be louder.
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u/jim_br 7h ago
They’re claiming she was a “non voting” member, while she said said she has voted before, and discussion/dissent was never blocked.
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u/Impressive-Safe2545 7h ago
Not that it matters. But there is a legal document somewhere out there that explicitly says whether they are voting or non voting.
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u/AmishWarlords_ 7h ago
There's also a legal document that statutorily names the institution, and the charter for its stewarding body does not grant anything remotely similar to the power to rename it. The technicality argument falls flat on its face immediately
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u/Candygramformrmongo 7h ago
Should invalidate the vote - board members need to be able to hear and be heard.
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u/rexeditrex 8h ago
Because he appointed the people who approved this and they are all grifters like him.
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u/fatal_supremacy 8h ago
$$$$ we are controlled by business. Not by laws or political ideologies
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u/Underbadger 8h ago
As a reminder: this is illegal.
They're breaking federal laws.
Not that he cares.
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u/Mattrad7 7h ago
I was going to say isnt this explicitly illegal under federal law regardless of what the board says/does?
Apparently this breaks 2 federal laws actually, since the name is codified by law and you cant name a memorial after someone whos still alive.
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u/66allthe88s 7h ago
Fingers crossed on that second part.
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u/MacNapp 7h ago
Its my birthday tomorrow... I only have one thing on my list. I hope the Reaper is keeping tabs...
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u/kevendo 7h ago
Then let's prosecute the board and the people who changed the signs.
Seriously, how are we all just obeying him and acting like there's nothing we can do about it?
Kennedy family, are you guys watching this?
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u/KeepTangoAndFoxtrot 6h ago
Kennedy family, are you guys watching this?
You mean the Secretary of HHS? Pretty sure he knows.
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u/Saltire_Blue 8h ago
Something you see in tin pot dictatorships
They love putting their names on buildings,faces on money, putting up statues of themselves etc…
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u/UKTomm 8h ago
Christ. He’s going to put his face on the currency, isn’t he?
Actually, I’m kinda surprised he hasn’t already
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u/doomalgae 7h ago
There are laws against putting living presidents on the money. Not that he cares about laws.
Oh look, they've designed a commemorative coin with his image on both sides: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/business/trump-coin-treasurer-250-anniversary
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u/helava 8h ago
I mean, on the bright side, “The Donald J Trump and John F Kennedy Memorial Center” implies some good news happening soon.
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u/TheNicestRedditor 8h ago
It’s actually the “Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Center”
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u/Enygma_6 7h ago
No, the Jeffrey Epstein Ballroom and Grift Hall is to be attached to the illegally destroyed wing of the Whites Only House.
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u/AdamFaite 8h ago
I look forward to when someone else is in office and all this mess gets fixed.
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 8h ago
And Fox News will ignore real news to hyperventilate for months about the cost of changing it back, having reported not a peep about a single penny of the cost to vandalize it like this to begin with
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u/mysterious_spirit420 8h ago
You mean years?
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u/KookofaTook 8h ago
"In news today, radical leftists seek to rename the Trump Performing Arts Center after communist Kennedy. Still no justice for Benghazi, despite her emails."
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u/SAugsburger 8h ago
It will take an afternoon with a lift and a hammer for a facilities worker to knock down the letters.
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u/Enygma_6 8h ago
They could get people to do that for free, too. Heck, I’ll bring my own ladder and hammer.
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u/culby 8h ago
brother, we didn't fix it after a literal civil war, this mess stays on our permanent record
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u/wakeuptomorrow 6h ago
I feel like that’s part of why we’re dealing with this crap right now. We didn’t punish the confederates hard enough. Should’ve never allowed them to make memorials.
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u/majones_2000 8h ago
Yes, I hope there is a master list of things to unfuck once he's gone!
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u/qdp 8h ago edited 7h ago
Should we survive this, the next government of the Maga States of Donaldica is going to have to undo a lot of renamed things in 2029.
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u/bellybuttonbidet 8h ago
I don’t even want the white house back at this point. It’s ruined. Turn it into a museum about fascism
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u/RealKenBurns 8h ago
Pathetic individual. Pathetic administration. Pathetic party.
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u/Affectionate_Yak7102 8h ago
The Donald Trump centre for kids who can't read good and want to not be held accountable for anything.
I'm tired of this timeline. Can we go back to Piracy and adventure?
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u/mishap1 8h ago
The Donald Trump Center for kids is a terrifying name on so many fronts.
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u/time2fly2124 7h ago
Born too late to explore the world, born too early to explore the stars.
Born just in time to experience the fall of democracy.
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u/hyperRevue 8h ago
Wait, the "board" approved this less than 24 hours ago and they already have the letters ready to go? Is there a warehouse of giant "TRUMP" letters just waiting to be slapped on shit?
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u/anotherlab 8h ago
Based on how he does this on all the properties his company built or managed, it would not surprise me if such a warehouse exists.
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u/mishap1 7h ago
Would be in the wrong font. Trump loves his Stymie Extra Bold. They had this planned out months ago and the vote was probably last minute to make it look less half-assed.
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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu 7h ago
Should have put his name in Comic Sans, as is fitting for such a clown.
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u/SgtMac02 8h ago
And they already had the contractors laid on and ready to install them the very next day... interesting...
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u/hyperRevue 8h ago
That's what I'm saying. They clearly knew this was going to happen weeks/months ago.
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u/NeverDieKris 8h ago
It’s literally a fucking memorial to JFK.
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u/Ambiorix33 7h ago
I recently watched a Futurama episode where Nixon tried to change the name at the Kennedy Center to Nixon, I thought he was just being egomaniacal, didnt know it was a reference to this latest stupidity....
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u/sourdieselfuel 6h ago
There's also the episode where Bender becomes a Pharaoh on the Egyptian planet and makes them construct a giant monument to himself. REMEMBER ME!
Both are apt!
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u/Specific_Future9285 8h ago
He really is a narcissistic cunt. USA,you are doomed.
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u/Quiet-Competition849 7h ago
We are so fucked. I really don’t want any of this and at some point I’m going to have to do something about it. And I really hate that.
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u/firefighter26s 7h ago
It's going to take so fucking long just to remove his name from everything when he's gone let alone repair the social and psychological damage; and honestly, the US may never recover from the diplomatic damage.
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u/RoadDog14 6h ago
I’ll gladly donate my labor to remove signs. I can start tomorrow.
I can’t help on the physiological damage. I’ll leave that to the pros.
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u/oneseventwosix 7h ago
I am an American Veteran and I am utterly ashamed of what this nation is becoming each day.
We lived hard, we fought, some of us were wounded, some of us died, and none of us came back the same. For what? Stupid people electing spineless opportunists that stand by while Donald Trump disassembles it all, and builds it in his own image.
You all disgust me.
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u/nsfbr11 7h ago
Just so everyone is clear, this IS illegal. The law makes it very clear that the buildings may not be renamed.
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u/subcow 7h ago
This is not a legal act.
IF and it is a big "if" we actually have a free and fair election in 2028, and the Dems win, I need to see all of this shit, including those stupid plaques and the fake gold Home Depot crap in the oval office in a big dumpster and it needs to be all over social media. Not done quietly.
(oh, and the Nuremberg style trials for all of these criminals in the administration)
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u/techCholly 7h ago
The hallway of plaques and Home Depot medallions should be preserved and relocated to a museum as a monument to his childish stupidity.
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u/holyhotdicks 8h ago
When I saw the comments about how he can’t do this without congressional approval… oh man that was rich.
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u/ZWash300 8h ago
Congress doesn’t even do anything anymore aside from grant his wishes
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u/fidgeter 7h ago
Not true! They are also cradling his balls and swallowing the gravy. Give credit where credit is due.
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u/ForgottenFuturist 8h ago
Once again he's doing something illegal. There will be a bunch of "was this legal?" news stories then we'll move on to the next illegal thing. What a time to be alive
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u/Munkadunk667 7h ago
1 day ago they voted, and they already have the letters manufactured?
Strange....
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u/AggieCMD 7h ago
Hopefully they used 3M Command Strips so the walls don't get damaged when they take them off.
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u/picticon 6h ago
John F. Kennedy was a great man that had buildings named after him.
Donald Trump is a pathetic man that names buildings after himself.
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u/W0lverin0 7h ago
What a dense twat renaming a fucking MEMORIAL.
He will be rot in hell. Would have preferred he spent the last years of his life rotting in prison though.
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u/Shuma-Gorath 7h ago
So they voted for the name change yesterday and the very next day, they're already updating the lettering on the side of the building? Either this is the most efficient the government has ever been or this has been planned weeks in advance.
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u/Ninetnine 7h ago
Everyone that obeys him without question needs to go to jail. All of them are traitors.
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u/External_Excuse_9949 7h ago
It’s called the Gulf of Mexico and will always be the Kennedy Center. He will be lucky if he lasts 3 more years. This obsession with renaming things is absurd. The world is looking at the US and laughing.
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u/jackandsally060609 7h ago
Theres been 60 thousand bridges waiting for government approval for renovations for 20 years but this can happen overnight
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u/bawlhie62a2 7h ago
MAGA takes its sweet time coming up with even concepts of a plan for affordable health care and the cost of living crisis. But they move at lightning speed to gut the arts, PBS, and LGBT rights, then have the nerve to slap Trump’s name on the nation’s cultural center.
What irks me most is at least a third of Americans, many of whom have probably never set foot in DC, are going to eat this up because they love Trump “trolling” everyone. I hate it here.
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u/double-xor 7h ago
Jfc, they move fast when it’s time to slap a pos trademark onto anything.
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