What’s next? The Trump-Washington Monument? The Trump-Lincoln Memorial? Nearly a year in, he seems to have spent much of his time honoring his own ego. Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Is he so clueless, in self knowledge, that it has not even occurred to him that he spends a tad too much time dwelling on his own greatness. He is so sick. All this focus on elevating himself is so sick. It amazes me that he must have such little self understanding to see what everyone else can easily see: his ego is the only thing that matters. He would spend his presidency renaming things after himself, and accomplishing nothing. Except the hurt he’s putting on most of us with his tarriffs.
I just cannot imagine this. He’s doing this because MAGA and Trumpism isn’t just political. It’s cultural, it’s one side in the culture wars. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts honors the president who died at an assassin’s bullets in 1963. Is it asking too much of Donald Trump to not do this? Yes, it is, and we have never had such a child pretending to be an adult in the Oval Office.
Spending his time naming things after himself. How pathetic is that?
Kennedy Center leadership insists it followed the law and attacked the late president’s family members who criticized the change
www.independent.co.uk
Relatives of the late President Kennedy were vocally opposed to the change.
“The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law,” former congressman Joe Kennedy III
wrote on X. “It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says.”
Maria Shriver, President Kennedy’s niece,
wrote on X that the decision left her “speechless, and enraged, and in a state of disbelief.”
In a
post on X, Grenell claimed Shriver and the rest of Kennedy’s relatives stood by as the center was “literally falling apart.”
“Donald Trump had to step in and save it because you didn’t help,” he wrote.
Since the Trump takeover, artists have boycotted the center and ticket sales have fallen sharply at its three largest venues, according to an analysis from
The Washington Post.
The Trump administration has shown a zeal for renaming things according to the wishes of the president and his allies, even if they lack clear authority to do so.
The White House now insists on referring to the Pentagon as the Department of War, and has signed an executive order to that effect, even though an
act of Congress is required to officially rename a federal department. So far, that hasn’t happened.
The president has also introduced a “
Trump gold card” immigration program, granting permanent residency to individuals who pay the government $1 million, though critics say he lacks the authority to carry out what amounts to a unilateral change in immigration law.
Earlier this month, the administration renamed the State Department’s Institute of Peace the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, and Trump allies are reportedly pushing to feature Trump’s name on the new Washington Commanders NFL stadium, the Washington Dulles International Airport, and a $1 coin.
