Some members of the Kennedy family and several lawmakers expressed opposition to the move and questioned its legality.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington donned a new name — the Trump-Kennedy Center — on the exterior of the building Friday, just a day after Donald Trump’s hand-picked board voted to change the arts institution’s name.
The move came despite concerns about the legality of the shift and objections from members of the Kennedy family and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle after the center announced that its board on Thursday voted unanimously to approve the name change.
Legal experts told NBC News earlier this year that the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administration-era statutes governing the creation of the Kennedy Center had enshrined the original name in legislation. They added that a new law passed by both chambers of Congress and signed by the president would be needed to change the name.
More embarrassment for history to record. Personally I hope he puts his mark on everything. I hope he puts his name on the Washington monument. It’ll be a good reminder for his supporters and future generations of what happened, presuming the next president doesn’t just take it all down.
Didn’t they take Trumps name off this already?
Fine and jail them for vandalism
ah yes, the theatre community, well known for being right wing. Especially as they’re about to host the (amazing) Improvised Shakespeare company.
I just wrote to them in regards to their partnership with an anti-trafficking charity.
Can someone restore sanity with a cherrypicker and a sledgehammer?
despite concerns about legality
There are no concerns. It’s outright illegal. Congress named it. They’re the only ones who can rename it.
But don’t lose focus here. Donald J Trump is a pedophile named in the Epstein files that the DoJ is refusing to fully release today in direct violation of the law.
Those workers need to be named in the lawsuit. This “just following [work] orders” business needs to stop. SCOTUS says Trump is untouchable but not the ones that follow his orders.
The looks on their faces in the photo…they weren’t ‘just following orders’, but proud and fully aware of their work.
Amerikkka is clown country
Look of that thumbnail those assholes smiling. Hope they lose there jobs and are shunned from society.
Putting aside the legal and practical stuff involved…
How can anyone look at this shit as anything other than endlessly and hopelessly pathetic?
Like… This guy is such a special snowflake that he needs to have constant praise, adoration, external validation, attention, participation trophies, empty gestures, gifts, and recognition for things he has nothing to do with? Such a sad little bitch that he can’t even stand up to a single grain of criticism of a single drop of scrutiny? The type of guy who can dish out lame insults and then crashes out spectacularly whenever someone dares fire back with a joke?
Is this dude really the best America has to offer?
Putting this mentally weak, physically unfit, emotionally unhunged man-baby on a pedestal really speaks volumes about the American people.
The people who elected him are the same small-minded, qeak-willed idiots who believe his lies and confuse his endless whining and narcissism for strength. There’s lead in the water, historic racism, education cuts, and non-stop propaganda on the TV.
Don’t worry, they were never concerned about the legality
I don’t know where the TDGarden is… but I can tell you where to find the Boston Garden… Just like the Gulf of Mexico is what the Mississippi dumps into.
What these assholes decide to call something in NO way obligates anyone else to also do so.
Do I call it X? Nope… it’s Twitter. Elon Musk can suck it.
The Kennedy Center as a name is going to outlast whatever horseshit the Orange Cunt tries.
Is that related to the TD BankNorth Garden?
There is only the Boston Garden.
The house of Cousy, Havlicek and Bird.
Toronto Dominion/BankNorth can take a long walk off a short pier.
Any paintball enthusiasts in the area?
And this is a MEMORIAL center for the arts.
I look forward to “Donald J Trump presents your grandmother’s memorial”
I look forward to the “Donald J. Trump Memorial” anything.
Landfills and public restrooms are the only things that deserve that label.
Well just take it down
Their website was also updatdd
