Trump goes full DICTATOR with SHOCK ANNOUNCEMENT
Nothwithstanding the emotive title (not my choice) the content here is spot on.
Trump continues now daily with a show. Nothing but bullshit, all the time. And the underlying drive is to stroke his own ego.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
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Trump’s press secretary, Caroline Levit [Karoline Leavitt], just made news by tweeting, quote:
“I have just been informed that the highly respected board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center 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. Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump. And likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future. The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur.”
To which Trump replied by saying this:
“She, uh, she just posted on your press secretary that the, uh, board members of the Kennedy Center, uh, voted unanimously to rename it the Trump Kennedy Center. What was your reaction to that?”
“Well, I was honored by it. The board is a very distinguished board, most distinguished people in the country, and I was surprised by it. I was honored by it. You know, we’re saving the building. We saved the building. The building was in such bad shape, both physically, financially, and every other way. And now it’s very solid, very strong. We have, uh, something going on television, I guess, on the 23rd of December. I think it’s going to get very big ratings. And the Kennedy Center is really, uh, really back strongly. It’s in very bad shape. Very, very bad shape physically.
“And, uh, we were also to get Congress to put up a lot of money and other people to put up a lot of money. We had a lot of donors come in for record-setting numbers. So we saved the Kennedy Center, and I was really—this was brought up by one of the very distinguished board members, and they voted on it, and there’s a lot of board members, and they voted unanimously. So I was very honored by it. Thank you.”
He was honored and surprised. Had no idea it was happening. Just came out of nowhere. It must have happened because of Trump’s deep appreciation for the arts, and definitely not because his entire goal in life is to demand monuments to his greatness from every corner of the earth.
But you know what? He says that this happened thanks to the very distinguished board. So let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and take a quick look at this totally, definitely independent board of qualified individuals who were chosen for their competence and no other reason. How about that?
The chairman of the board: Donald J. Trump. I wonder if the chairman of the board had anything to do with this recent name change honoring the chairman of the board. Truly one of life’s great mysteries.
But let’s see who else is on there, since I’m sure that this is an eclectic and diverse group of people. There’s Maria Bartiromo, Fox host chosen because she is a fawning sycophant for Trump. Pam Bondi, Trump’s own attorney general. Pamela DeVos, related to Betsy DeVos, who was Trump’s own secretary of education. Patricia Duggan, wife of a major Trump donor. Sergio Gore, Trump’s ambassador to India. Pamela Gross, Melania’s adviser. Laura Ingraham, another groveling Fox host who loves Trump. Allison Lutnick, the wife of Trump’s secretary of commerce. Dan Scavino, Trump’s adviser. Usha Vance, Trump’s vice president’s wife. Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, just to name a few.
I should also note that Donald Trump appointed all of these people. So the notion that these people are there for their love of the arts, or their unique appreciation of culture, or their qualifications, is a joke. They are there for the same reason anyone in Donald Trump’s orbit is anywhere. They show slavish fealty, blind devotion to the god king, and nothing more.
Now this raises the question that we seem to always ask in the aftermath of a corrupt move by Donald Trump: Can he do this? And the answer is legally no. The building is named the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by statute, and Congress did not vest any authority in the board to change the name.
Here’s that law:
“The board shall construct for the Smithsonian Institution, with funds raised by voluntary contributions, a building to be designated as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on a site in the District of Columbia bounded by the Interloop Freeway on the east, the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge approaches on the south, Rock Creek Parkway on the west, New Hampshire Avenue, and F Street on the north, which shall be selected for such purpose by the National Capital Planning Commission.”
Now, as I’ve mentioned in the past, our laws are only as strong or valid as the willingness of our government to actually uphold or enforce them. Clearly, the executive branch is not willing to abide by its oath to properly or faithfully execute the laws.
But luckily, or unluckily if you’re Donald Trump, we live in a system of checks and balances. And so the courts will be able to have a say if and when this is challenged.
But I think there’s an important point to make here. Regardless of what happens with the Kennedy Center, it’s that this is where Donald Trump is focusing his efforts.
Healthcare costs are set to surge starting January 1st for 24 million Americans. Trump has been promising a healthcare plan that’s cheaper and more comprehensive for almost ten years now, and yet here we are with nothing to show for it. Medicaid is being stripped away from 17 million Americans. Food assistance is being gutted to the tune of $186 billion. The cost of everything is rising, including housing, rent, food, clothing, electricity, toys.
Energy prices have surged 13 percent across the United States on average, despite Trump’s promises to cut those prices by 2026, which is days away. He promised free IVF, didn’t deliver. Promised an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, didn’t deliver. Promised to lower inflation, didn’t deliver. Promised to protect earned benefits, didn’t deliver.
His approval rating is plummeting. Republicans are losing in special elections and regular elections across the country. And all the while, Trump is focused on bestowing honors onto himself and then acting surprised.
The notion that this guy ran as a populist is an absolute joke. Trump is not in this for anyone not named Donald Trump. And frankly, the Kennedy Center renaming is just the latest in a long line of these abuses.
He’s building himself a ballroom, the cost for which has now been revised yet again, this time to $400 million. He’s adorned the Oval Office in gold. Got himself a Qatari jet that American taxpayers are going to pay a billion dollars to retrofit. Bought Kristi Noem a couple of Gulfstream jets to the tune of $172 million. And of course, he’s been plenty busy hosting crypto dinners where he’s doubled his net worth.
So my question to everybody out there who’s watching right now who voted for this guy is: Does it sound like he’s working for you? Does it sound like he’s running a populist administration? Does it sound like he’s concerned about the working class? Or does it sound like he’s just exploiting the federal government to pad his own bottom line and enrich himself and his family and his pals?
Take all the time you need with that one.
The truth is that the less popular Donald Trump becomes, the more he has to insulate himself with loyalists and heap more awards and accolades and honors onto himself to deflect from that bad news. But deep down, he knows that it’s a band-aid. He knows that it’s just him compensating for his deep unpopularity and his deep insecurity.
Remember, this is what happened the last time Trump actually went to the Kennedy Center.
So he can slap his name on every building in the world, but it’s not going to change how people actually perceive him. It is only going to highlight that he feels he needs to do this because otherwise it would be too obvious, too apparent that he is a small, weak, and deeply unpopular man whose legacy will be upended and erased the moment he leaves office.
All the cheap gold leafing and nameplates might feel good now, but here’s the silver lining. There will come a day in the not-so-distant future where Donald Trump will have to sit idly by, helpless and powerless and old, and watch all of that stuff get torn down. And there will be nothing he can do about it but rant on a social media platform that no one’s on to a country that will have moved on from him.
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In the future, when Trump is just a bad memory, historians will have a field day with this buffoon. He will also, I predict, be a very popular character for those studying abnormal psychology.
I'm looking forward to the reactions of maga when his name is stripped off everything, right after he croaks ...
Obvously this painting was predictive.
Alternatively, when Trump dies at the age of 95, ending his long reign as President-for-life, the city of Washington, D.C., will be renamed "Trump City"....
I think we seeded about this at the same time. Lets leave them both up.
Is there anything Trump wont rename after himself ?
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Trump Canyon
Taking into consideration what he's doing to The White House and his renaming the Gulf of Mexico, I bet he'll widen the Lincoln Memorial and erect a statue of himself on a chair equal to the dimensions of Lincoln's. Thankfully there's no room left on Mount Rushmore.
Does anyone seriously doubt this will be named the Donald J Trump Ballroom ?
I’ll believe that when I see an actual building go up. In the meantime, he has destroyed the East Wing (illegally), is collecting money from “donors” (aka bribers), and he isn’t building shit.
he's waiting for the russian contractors to show up and start work. I guess they had the winning low bid ...
The fact that all his supporters are willing to look the other way on this guy. Day after day. They should all be ashamed of themselves.
... in some other country.
but they're not....they don't know what shame is
They would be if they had any shame left, but they do not. Millions of religious conservative dipshits have abandoned their sense of shame in exchange for promises that their fantasy faith will be forced upon the world by the orange clown instead of having to wait for Jesus, because the other thing they ran out of was patience.
all maga thumpers want to meet geezus, unfortunately for us, they want to do it while they're still breathing ...
the only job he seems to have the most talent and experience in performing ...
Usually, we name public buildings, etc. after dead people. Is there something they're not telling us?
In fact, in most cases, that’s the law.
About his health? Plenty.
But they’re also not acknowledging that they lack the legal authority to change the name to anything other than the name given to it by Congress.
They lack the legal authority to do a lot of what they're doing, but it's not stopping them from plowing right ahead.
Because Congress is not doing its job and the SCotUS is being extremely leniant.
I wonder how many maga converts are now becoming more concerned about their historical legacies?
I do not expect that a remaining Trump supporter is thinking much about what is actually taking place or the impact of same.
anyone that supports trump now also deserves to share his fate in the near future ...
Trouble is, Trump negatively affects everyone ... not just those who (inexplicably) support him.
it needs to be political cancer surgery, removing the tumor and the diseased tissue surrounding it ...
that he's dead already and they're doing a Weekend at Bernie's thing?
Yep.
there's quite a few people in the know that claim he smells like he's dead already ...
I'm sure he appreciates it.
what a truly sick and insecure feeble little damaged 2nd hand 'man'
He fires the previous board, appoints all his sycophants and then is surprised they want to rename the Kennedy Center after him? You could drive a semi thru all those holes
He forced that board to name it after him
That;s likr sayin Epstein forced young girls to have sex with him and his friends
the name change planning was already in the works when he fired the first board ...