Kennedy Center gets new signage bearing Trump’s name
By: Kaanita Iyer; Betsy Klein/CNN
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
New signage is being installed at Washington, DC’s performing arts center on Friday to include President Donald Trump’s name.
It comes after the institution’s board of trustees voted a day earlier to rename the facility to honor the president.
The building, known as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, has been renamed by the trustees to the Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.
The center’s social media accounts were also updated on Friday to reflect the new name.
However, the legality of the move remains in question. It is unclear if the board has the authority to rename the arts institution, which Congress designated as a memorial to Kennedy in 1964 following his assassination the year before.
The renaming drew criticism from the Kennedy family, with Maria Shriver, Kennedy’s niece, calling the effort to rename the memorial after Trump “beyond comprehension.”
Meanwhile, Trump on Thursday touted what he described as “record-setting numbers” in donors and previewed plans to get Congress to invest more money in the center.
“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,” he said.
After returning to office, Trump dramatically reshaped the performing arts center, gutting the board of trustees and ousting its chairman. And soon after, the president was elected chair of the center following his appointment of several new members to the board.
The new signage marks the second time this month that a federal building has been renamed after Trump.
The president’s name was installed on the building and signage around the US Institute of Peace , an independent agency, on December 3. USIP was also gutted earlier this year as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the federal government.
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Another insult to the American people by the vile Trump regime.
I can only hope that this sudden interest in naming stuff after himself is tied to recent speculations on his state of health ..... I can hardly wait for the new $1 coin with his likeness on both sides to be issued by the US treasury ...
Honoring Donald J. Trump --
Morning...ahh the classic dunny, thunder box, bog house..we have something to compare now..🤣🤣
All you need are the blowies and red back spiders and you'll be right...
A dunny in the outback..not sure why you would need a door though...
trump's name needs to be on the end of the same type of prank that humiliated rick santorum ...
Don't even get me started on George Santos.
How is it that the far-right breeds fascists, fools, compulsive liars and low IQ rednecks?
... look down into the hole and gaze upon his likeness.
This "human" makes me want to vomit
my comments about POS/POTUS and this demonstration of narcissism would be immediately ticketed and deleted ...
At least flagged. They get triggered so easily these days
they'll be filled with impotent rage this time next year ...
That'll be interesting. Impotent rage and posting on a website.
Let the games begin
... if we still have a country by then. look at all the damage he and his sycophants have done in 11 months ...
Morning...how much is this going to cost you mob to undo and un rename everything he has done?
The way it's going you will be bankrupt...
Fool them use Aussie expressions that'll get 'em.. 😁
Yep. Seems at times we can't speak truth here.
This will last only so long as Trump clings to power. Soon as he's gone this will go back to it always had been and Trump will be an afterthought no one wants to bring up in polite conversation.
I'll think about him when I need to blow chunks
I gaze briefly at his likeness every morning ...
Do you need to blow chunks every morning?
think harder ...
don't be so mean
... uh, I probably edited that comment a dozen times already ...
I'm gonna flag you
ffs, you know I don't like it when legitimate flags get mixed in with the bullshit flags on my ticket list ...
suck it up buttercup
... and I'm the mean one. yeah, right ...
I'm with fishy..😁
who asked you ...
Don't have to..I just naturally go with the more intelligent one..🤣
Oh and how is the weather over there?? Just a tad chilly by the looks...
Meanwhile here..🏖️🏝️🏄🏊🌅
Over here? Where I live It was 90 (a little over 32 to you guys) a couple of days ago, 86 yesterday and in the 80s today. It's been in the 80s for days.
Arvo G..where Vangy hangs out it's snow, ice and blizzards..
Sounds like you live in the warmer part of the country.. enjoy..🏝️🏖️
He lives in Colorado. I live in Southern California. There is a big difference.
We had rain in November. We need rain again. The forecast is heavy rain on Wednesday and Thursday, and possibly beyond that.
Know where I would rather be and it ain't in Colorado..
Southern Callie sounds good to me..🏄
it was 70°f here today. after being barely over freezing during the day and with 100+mph winds at night for the last couple days, I was so shocked I went for a walk today. now they've issued some new fire/wind warning along the front range, so I guess if anything catches fire around my home, it'll burn everything from here to kansas until it starts snowing again.
there would definitely be a language barrier for you to overcome at any surfing beach ...
70 there now? Amazing. Hope you don't get fires. Our massive fires were almost a year ago. Horrific.
She could maybe take a language immersion course and pick up on the local dialect.
it's always goofy weather, you get 2 seasons a year and we get 3 in the span of a week.
there's nothing but dead grass to burn east of the front range, but what I found interesting and very LA this time was that xcel sent me a text and email stating if the winds picked up that they were pulling the plug on the transmission lines. I guess they didn't feel like paying another billion or so dollars for another couple neighborhoods that went up in smoke. like they did a few years ago when a line went down in bfe south of boulder and the resulting prairie fire took out parts of 2 towns surrounding the boulder/denver tech corridor of louisville and superior, burning a lot of pricey homes to the ground.
Actually, locals like me can tell the difference between the 4 seasons. It may be pretty subtle to newcomers, but to us it's quite distinctive.
That's the problem. They've never done that here as far as I'm aware. Only after the wind knocks them down. Not as a precautionary measure.
For sure, dude.
... and we're back to below freezing temperatures outside this morning.
Don't go outside!
at my age, I only worry about walking across the ice now ...
There have been reports that there may be a major earthquake to hit the North-west, accompanyied by a Tsunami. But the newscasters are unclear about the time frame.
I've heard that, too. It could be sometime in the next 100-200 years or so, or not.
Sorry to say that Trump has elevated evil to a new level.
His sycophants are subhuman, low IQ, and violence prone!
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This is vandalism. A crime is being committed. Someone needs to call a marshal or a ranger or something. Why will no one stand up and enforce the law?
G ang O f P ussies
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Because EVERYBODY is afraid of Trump's fascist minions.
They proved their capacity for mindless violence on 1/6/21.
Seems Murdoch's Fox, Newsmax and Trump figured out how to weaponize the sub 80 IQ, brain-dead folk. All it took was hate.
magas wants to be wieners ... uh, winners, just like their hero ...
the finished product
At least it won't take much to chisel it off..
The sooner the better.
It looks hideous.
Malignant narcissism.
Not to mention the obvious grammar issue
that was necessary to give his name top billing ...
... none of his supporters will notice.
Trump appointed the board that voted for that. Disgusting and sad.
on the plus side, think about all those maga morons that will be apoplectic in a few years when we'll get to mock and ridicule them as their maga lord and savior's name is unceremoniously stripped from everything it previously tainted. we can auction off all his bullshit to the maga morons as we identify his unamerican scum supporters at the same time ...
If only we could imprison every last MAGA fascist for life just to nip extremism in the USA before it destroys the USA!
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Both the great artists and the audience are staying away now.
Expect to see kid rock and ted nugent as headliners now.
Yet again, little donny destroys everything he touches.
Trump is following the lead of dictators. Next will be building sized posters of his face.
cool, I've always enjoyed vandalizing and defacing offensive media renditions of fascists.
hopefully the maga pied piper leads his vermin supporters right over the cliff along with him ...
Honestly, if I lived anywhere near the building, I’d be sorely tempted to take a hammer to his name. It can’t be a crime to destroy something that has been placed there illegally.
they sure went to a lot of unnecessary trouble to obscure what they were doing, until it was done ...
Well that’s SOP when committing a crime.
... still pointless, since trump knows he won't be the one going to jail ...
Have yet to vandalize or steal anything involving politics, but at 70 I'm not too old to learn. It's time for good Americans to stand up against far right wing fascism.
He already started that in May. Totally disgusting.
Banners of Trump's face on D.C. buildings raise propaganda concerns
Banner hang on the USDA Headquarters in May. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
They also hung Trump banners on the Dept. of Labor and there was one at the Dept. of Agriculture which was apparently removed. The banners cost the American taxpayers something in the range of $50,000.00
paintball gun, filled with red or black paintballs ...
[,] [✘] a few bottle rockets ...
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Perhaps they have been comparing notes on how to frighten tourists and locals away...
Fair dinkum to have your face plastered on buildings etc you really do have to be up yourself..
oh crap, I actually understood what you said ...
We have ways and means.😁
Played on a world championship paintball team for a decade and was the team gunsmith. Built a paintball gun once that was lethal just for the fun of it and it is now what the Feds use on citizens with hard rubber balls. These things are lethal and should be treated as firearms. Every cop who uses one of these on civilians should be charged with attempted murder!
P.S. Didn't sell my design to anybody. The cops got it from another. (the gunsmith from the paintball team Team Navarone in LA CA).
Hitler used to fly banners like that.
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my gun was also modified. hot pink paintballs and oops, accidental head shots infuriated the rambo types ...
If Kennedy could weigh in on Trump ...
perfect!
I'm stealing it ...
Excellent!
Given the current news out of Venezuela, it may soon be that Trump has renamed the country!
Its now to be called "Trump's Venezuela"! A division of "Donald Trump's Real Estate Corporation"
Actually he could re-name it "Trump's Venezuela LLC", which sounds even more impressive. (Of course its not an actual LLC -- but why worry about a little thing like actual facts? )
how about maga kiddieland?