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\n\tIn a move that prompted immediate questions about its legality, the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., voted on Thursday to add President Donald Trump\u2019s name to an institution he has roiled since taking office in January. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe move, following a year-long fascination with a center that has not been a top-of-mind priority for other presidents in the way that it has been for Trump, was met with disapproval from members of Kennedy\u2019s family and legal experts who say it goes against a stipulation put in place after Congress renamed the center in the wake of JFK\u2019s assassination in 1963.<\/p>\n
\n\tAs reported<\/a> by CNN, spokeswoman Roma Daravi said, \u201cThe Kennedy Center Board of Trustees voted unanimously today to name the institution The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe claim of unanimity was disputed by Democratic Representative Joyce Beatty, an ex-officio member of the board, who said, \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn a message on X, Joe Kennedy III, a former congressman and the great-nephew of the late president, said, \u201cThe Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law. It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBut that has not stopped Trump or his acolytes, who already changed the name to The Trump Kennedy Center on the institution\u2019s website<\/a> and, as reported<\/a> today by The New York Times<\/em>, added the president\u2019s mantle to the center\u2019s fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n \n\tIn June, Trump was booed<\/a> at a Kennedy Center performance of Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>, and Vice President J.D. Vance was booed<\/a> at a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra in March. In October, the Washington Post<\/em> published a damning expos\u00e9<\/a> cataloguing staff turmoil and claiming ticket sales have \u201cplummeted\u201d since Trump made the Kennedy Center a politicized cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a move that prompted immediate questions about its legality, the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., voted on Thursday to add President Donald Trump\u2019s name to an institution he has roiled since taking office in January. The move, following a year-long fascination with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 18:24:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}