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BumRushDaShow

(165,821 posts)
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 04:35 AM Dec 19

"It's a disgrace": Enraged Democrats vow to fight "Trump-Kennedy Center" renaming

Source: msn/Axios

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House Democrats responded with swift fury on Thursday after the Kennedy Center board purportedly voted unanimously to rename the performing arts center to the "Trump-Kennedy Center."

Why it matters: Democrats argue the name change can't be done without an act of Congress, and they're vowing to fight back in any way they can.

  • House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told reporters: "The Kennedy Center Board has no authority to actually rename the Kennedy Center in the absence of legislative action, and we're going to make that clear."
  • "It's a disgrace," added Jeffries, an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center board. "It's an embarrassment."


  • Driving the news: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote Thursday afternoon in a post on X that the board "just voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center."

  • The renaming, she claimed, was "because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building."
  • The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is written into the law that authorized the creation of the venue.


  • Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/its-a-disgrace-enraged-democrats-vow-to-fight-trump-kennedy-center-renaming/ar-AA1SCu8F
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    lostnfound

    (17,409 posts)
    1. Give me a break. JFK would be far more concerned about...
    Fri Dec 19, 2025, 05:16 AM
    Dec 19

    the other 98% of trumps actions than about the name on a building.

    Dems, stop letting them set nonsense narratives. A name can be easily reversed. World-leadership-change and a crashed financial system and families ripped apart for several years and a national reputation that includes blowing boats of fisherman out of the water is a different matter.

    BumRushDaShow

    (165,821 posts)
    3. "a crashed financial system and families ripped apart for several years"
    Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:21 AM
    Dec 19

    The idiots who voted for 45 the first time or sat home, HEARD that message during 45's first term and during the 2020 election, and were reminded about it during the 2024 election, and they ignored it this go-around.

    That's because 45 managed to once again, scrape the very bottom scum of the barrel, by focusing on "wedge issues" that DID "resonate" with that populace - "Anti-Trans", "DEI", "Immigrants", "Anti-vax", sprinkled with various and sundry lies about "the economy".

    There is no "messaging" that will resonate better than experiencing what happens when the GOP burns something down to the ground (which is also what happened before FDR got in).

    You STILL have dumbasses up there saying "Give him more time" as their farms and businesses go bankrupt and their workforce gets hauled off and deported, the tariffs kill their bottom line, and their children get infected with measles.

    jaymac

    (248 posts)
    2. And why???
    Fri Dec 19, 2025, 06:40 AM
    Dec 19

    Won't Ken Martin release the report on why dems lost the last election? Wouldn't it be good to know? If David Hogg were in his elected position instead of having been pushed out, I'lll bet we'd be seeing it. Dems have to wake up and slough off the old corporate/status quo dems and push forward on a new better path! C'mon, I know we can do it.

    BumRushDaShow

    (165,821 posts)
    4. " And why??? Won't Ken Martin release the report on why dems lost the last election? "
    Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:30 AM
    Dec 19

    Why would you do that in the middle of the purported release timeframe of the "Epstein Files"?

    We own NO media outlets.

    I will REPEAT - WE. OWN. NO. MEDIA. OUTLETS.

    So we would have NOTHING to counter the fiasco that the M$M would make of that while they let the pedo go scot-free once again.

    jaymac

    (248 posts)
    5. sorry, trump WILL be tarred by the Epstein files
    Fri Dec 19, 2025, 08:20 AM
    Dec 19

    but transparency matters. we dems out here want to know the conclusions so we the people can fight on. I want to know, and I want to be able to move forward, not backward as we've done since John Dean was the head of the DNC........

    BumRushDaShow

    (165,821 posts)
    11. Everyone thought he would be "tarred" by the "Access Hollywood" tapes too
    Fri Dec 19, 2025, 03:09 PM
    Dec 19

    but here we are.

    Transparency is fine but TIMING is paramount when you have someone who has literally taken over EVERY BRANCH of government, and who installed his own sycophants, including at the highest court. The full power of the federal government is currently leaning against Democrats.

    All it would do is hijack the Epstein news cycle because nearly ALL of the M$M is RW-owned and are loathe to report on that without sane-washing it, and would quickly prefer to go back to their tired mantra of "Democrats in Disarray".

    What people need to look at are the CURRENT real, on the ground FACTS and RESULTS - the last election in November and the special elections before/after, and how Democrats have over-performed.

    ificandream

    (11,691 posts)
    6. And we shouldn't "own" any media outlets
    Fri Dec 19, 2025, 08:30 AM
    Dec 19

    The conservative right-wing media is solid corruption. As for CNN and MSNOW, they are real media. And real media reports facts. Which both do. Forget opinion pieces and opinion-based coverage to which CBS has become. Social media believes the media must be totally biased. Whether we like it or not, real media will not act like Fox nor should they. MSNOW and CNN, as well as other smaller outlets, are reporting the corruption of Trump. And I still regard NYT and WashPost as real media. Corrupt media goes to places that real media has never gone and won't.

    BumRushDaShow

    (165,821 posts)
    13. This is how THEY get their "messaging" out
    Fri Dec 19, 2025, 03:17 PM
    Dec 19

    Our elected officials will have a million pressers and no one knows about them, particularly DU, which will keep complaining about "no one" doing "news conferences" (except they are), because they didn't "see" them on M$NBC or CNN... and in reality, the only ones covering them are MAYBE the CSPANs (if done by someone in Congress) and otherwise, a local media outlet.

    It doesn't have to be "talking heads" opinion and commentary entity. It could be the equivalent of a "public broadcasting" channel that will strictly cover our press conferences, events, panel discussions, speeches at any venue, conferences, conventions, etc. It could also provide discussions on the platform, voting, updates on court cases, etc.

    Cha

    (316,818 posts)
    9. Fucking Demented Narcissistic Psycho in the
    Fri Dec 19, 2025, 02:06 PM
    Dec 19

    Damaged WH is a Leech on Humanity.

    TY and Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

    14. Our elected Dems have nothing better to do?
    Fri Dec 19, 2025, 05:33 PM
    Dec 19

    This is why we lose.

    Enough with the GD Kennedy Center renaming.

    electric_blue68

    (25,939 posts)
    16. Respectfully, we can walk, and chew gum at the same time...
    Fri Dec 19, 2025, 08:23 PM
    Dec 19

    Drumphf is a phillistine. H doesn't care about the arts, except in some narrow selections.
    He probably hates a lot of those who the Center awarded.

    The Arts are part of our country's lifeblood. Having a nation ceter for them in DC is a declaration of appreciation.

    It is a disgrace. I'll be happy when they tear off the metal letters of his name some time post Jan. 20, 2026.

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