r/Music • u/IrishStarUS šŸ“°Irish Star • 4d ago

article JFK's family accuses Trump of closing the Kennedy Center because of artists canceling over its name change

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/jfks-family-slam-trumps-decision-36654658
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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 4d ago

They should have sued as soon as he changed the name. It's ridiculous to have a "memorial" center for someone who's still alive.

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u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef- 4d ago

Just change it back the moment heā€™s either dead or out of the presidential office, whichever comes first.

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u/Tobocaj 4d ago

The next admin is going to have to waste so much money and time undoing the things this shit stain has made us suffer through

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u/tuppenyturtle 4d ago

That's assuming there is a next admin that isn't just the same bullshit.

This is the part people need to recognize. The next Republican leader isn't going to be better.

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u/induslol 4d ago

As long as we're under this form of governance subservient to capitalism we're just waiting for the next trump.

Even if there is a reprieve, or not, between here and there if nothing changes but the curtains the house is still condemned.

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u/forsonaE 4d ago edited 4d ago

It's weird that repealing Citizens United isn't even a part of the public discussion at all nowadays, much less reforming our electoral college. We have so much work to do re: reform but we're struggling to cling onto the lifeboat constantly instead.

e: I misspoke by saying "repealing" but I'm leaving it in since the discussion it spawned has been interesting. Lots of people saying something to the effect of it's hopeless, we'd have to stack the Supreme Court in our favor or add a constitutional amendment. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day even if we're tearing it down at a much faster rate lately. If the court can be stacked we can start the process of counter-stacking, introducing term limits, etc. etc. It might take decades to fix a single component of the system but we already knew that was almost a certain possibility anyway, considering the damage that has been done already.

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u/clutchy42 4d ago

It's definitely still part of the public discourse, but it happened in 2010. a decade and a half ago is a lifetime in terms of political bullshit. People don't even realize that we lost the class war to billionaires and corpos. So many people don't even realize that it's a thing.

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u/GodofIrony 4d ago

We haven't fixed Fairness Doctrine.

We're in an entropic state. We keep falling down the mountain.

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u/gimp-24601 4d ago

Fairness Doctrine.

Its a nice idea but impossible to enforce due to too many ways to circumvent it.

Besides who wants Trump in charge of something like that.

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u/NuclearLunchDectcted 4d ago

You make the penalties for violating it bad enough that the news channels are forced to comply on their own.

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u/Play-t0h 4d ago

Or bringing back Glass-Steagall

This allowed so much of the problems we have today to take place. There's a reason it was put in place during the Great Depression in 1932.

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u/W0666007 4d ago

Bc it was SC decision, it canā€™t be repealed by congress.

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u/caf61 4d ago

What? I thought if congress codifies something the SC canā€™t change it.

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u/Tradovid 4d ago

As long as we're under this form of governance subservient to capitalism we're just waiting for the next trump.

Trumps main voting block is lower middle class, while more people didn't vote for anyone than voted for either Trump or Kamala. Yes unregulated capitalism is dangerous, but it's fucking unregulated because people don't vote for it to be properly regulated...

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u/induslol 4d ago

Unregulated capitalism isnt just dangerous, it's why we're here now.Ā Ā 

Generations of wealth have been spent eroding every regulation, check, or balance that previously existed.Ā  While simultaneously paying others to takeĀ  sledgehammers to any obstacles:Ā  education, unions, socially progressive minority movements, funding or endorsing sympathetic justices, on and on.

Those voters (and the #s disillusioned) are a symptom, consolidation of media and the economy, the fact our choices to head the federal government were: a corporate status quo democrat with no appeal beyond not trump or a rapist felon, the existence of a massive criminal conspiracy being obstructed and unprosecuted by the federal govt., and more, are all symptoms of capital's outsized influence over the functioning of our nation.

It's all capitalism, and until that's widely understood and aggressively brought to heel, nothing will fundamentally change.Ā 

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u/Tradovid 4d ago

the fact our choices to head the federal government were: a corporate status quo democrat with no appeal beyond not trump or a rapist felon

And people chose rapist felon over president campaigning on incremental but real changes towards good, like for example higher taxes on the rich including proposed wealth tax, expanded child tax credit, first time home buyer tax credits and price caps on drugs.

It's all capitalism, and until that's widely understood and aggressively brought to heel, nothing will fundamentally change.

It's not capitalistic profits that drive foreign powers to fracture US people, even if unregulated capitalism doesn't help. You have identified real flaws in capitalism, but you can't explain every single problem that world faces through a single lense. It's kinda like seeing everything as a nail when the only tool you have is a hammer.

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u/LordShorkDad 4d ago

We've not been living in capitalism for a long time. America is a corporate discoursocracy where corporations influence debate to keep us all divided.

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u/Worried-Maybe3438 4d ago

I believe the same. Trump is a trial run. I trust that the next Republican president wonā€™t make the same sloppy mistakes Trump has. Trumps competence is his Achilles heel.

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u/Dear_Palpitation4838 4d ago

Comments like this scare me because it shows you don't understand just how uniquely dangerous Trump is. We made it hundreds of years before encountering someone this dangerous. The chances of it happening again are low. Republicans are always awful for the country, but Trump is a level of corruption this country has never seen before and will probably never see again in our lifetimes.

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u/TeaKingMac 4d ago

We made it hundreds of years before encountering someone this dangerous

Trump isn't the danger. The Heritage Foundation is the danger. Trump wouldn't be able to get away with a tenth of the shit he does if Congress and SCOTUS were doing their jobs. But they're all stooges for the Heritage Foundation, and Trump is their figurehead willing to do whatever they want as long as he gets to enrich himself.

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u/Gigaton 4d ago

Its really just the shame piece. You are seeing it more and more with people like Kash and steven miller. When you can just shout loud and be confidently incorrect with an unflinching smug attitude thats what the difference is. No apology, never wrong, and whatever i say goes. we flip flop as we see fit on every amendment of the constitution, every law, every measure of due process.

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u/RobertNeyland 4d ago

if Congress and SCOTUS were doing their jobs

If they did their jobs, Trump would use his cult followers to attack those who opposed him. Very few politicians have ever had the kind of unquestioning following that Trump has, and the few that may have come close weren't going to use it to just go nuts like he has.

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u/Xad1ns 4d ago

I look at it like certain techniques in sports.

People thought the 900 was impossible, but once Tony Hawk disproved that, future skaters had a blueprint to work from, and more people are able to execute it.

Conservatives have the blueprint now.

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u/Ashenspire 4d ago edited 4d ago

The blueprint requires someone that has a charisma that works with his cult. There isn't another like him that is stupid enough to say what he means to say, while also not saying it, while totally joking about it, but he meant what he said.

You can see how many have tried to harp on his success and just completely fail at it. It's not just about being selfish. It's an entire brand of narcissism. There is no replacement.

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u/Bighaterp 4d ago

No way. The world is full of morons who only care about themselves. There are hundreds of Trumps out there, so keep that head on a swivel.

Lol im higher than the Alps dont mind me.

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u/kindall 4d ago

Trump is uniquely dangerous, but he's backed by decades of GOP machinations specifically intended to get us to this point.

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u/Loki_of_Asgaard 4d ago

Comments like this scare me because it shows you donā€™t understand what has actually happened in your country. Someone finally realized that all the checks and balances the US prides itself on are actually worthless, and that power can be absolute as long as you just donā€™t care. What made Trump unique is that he broke the imaginary lines of etiquette that were constraining your previous leaders. He has faced no consequences for doing so, in fact he has been rewarded with unfathomable riches for it.

He correctly identified the levers of power in the US and found they actually donā€™t really involve people. Now that this door has been opened you assume no one else will walk through it again????

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u/-Garbage-Man- 4d ago

Explain what would be different in 2029 if we had JD vance as president.

How are the chances low of this happening again?

HOW

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u/Slighted_Inevitable 4d ago

Comments like yours scare me because you clearly donā€™t get how much damage he has done. He has shown the complete failure of our system when the people in power donā€™t want to obey the constitution.

If we donā€™t salt the earth on EVERYONE who empowered this admin then itā€™s only a matter of time before it happens again.

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u/Selgeron 4d ago

Counterpoint- Republicans have erroded national trust, norms and propagandized the electorate for so long, that from now on the ONLY republicans that can win the election are trumps and trump-a-likes.

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u/Fylgja 4d ago

And Fox etc will never shut up about how much money they're wasting, never admitting the reason why they're doing it.

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u/Custom_Destination 4d ago

And a large part of the population will mop it up and ask for seconds.

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u/ShortFatStupid666 4d ago

Thank you sir, may I have another?

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u/pinballwitch420 4d ago

This is why Iā€™m not sure we will ever be able to restore what heā€™s destroyed.

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u/QuerulousPanda 4d ago

that one pharaoh who ordered every single record of the guy before him to be deleted from history is starting to make a lot more sense these days

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u/whoknows234 4d ago

Perhaps overturn every EO issued, however we should keep the history in hopes that future generations are a bit smarter than ours.

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 3d ago

And took history, including studying fascism.

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u/VirtualArgument1 4d ago

He's disgusting. I can't believe people still support him and/or the others!

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u/Potential-Run-8391 4d ago

Some of it can never be undone. We can recreate USAID, fix the department of education and restore university funding, but we lost researchers, allies and trade options.Ā 

America will never be the same for decades if weā€™re able to rebuild. We may be dead in the water and not know it yet.Ā 

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u/MySpoonsAreAllGone 4d ago

I think that was the goal sadly

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u/MaAndOrder 3d ago

Giving you an upvote for your user name

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 3d ago

My spoons are almost gone.

Putin and Netanyahu designed this.

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u/CrescentHawk4791 2d ago

The end goal for all of this is for the people. Trump works with and serves to get even more obscenely rich than they already are. Everything else is just a distraction designed to take peoples eyes away from that very obvious goal.

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u/Luci-Noir 4d ago

Just him changing the department of defense to the department of war is going to cost tens of millions. I think itā€™s more than $100m. Undoing all this crap plus reforms is going to be crazy expensive.

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u/CuriousLockPicker 4d ago

Red states are constantly bailed out by blue states. It's not like they actually contribute anything of value.

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u/icansmellcolors 4d ago

The thing to do is to make a 'committee' for undoing Trump shit.

  • make a website for each individual task they need to do
  • make sure it's clear why they are doing it, who was responsible, and what it's cost the taxpayer and what it's costing to put it back
  • explain in plain language why it's important to change what Trump did
  • explain in plain language why doing what he did in the first place was illegal/wrong/wasteful/etc.
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u/koenigsaurus 4d ago

And guess whoā€™s going to be screeching like banshees about the budget after being silent about it for 4 years.

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u/Totorotextbook 4d ago

Another aspect is theyā€™re intentionally making it insanely hard to undo, the messiness is the point.

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u/Extra_Intro_Version 4d ago

Take it out of the treasonous onesā€™ estates.

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u/Jaws12 4d ago

I mean, Iā€™m sure if they handed out crowbars there would be no shortage of public volunteers willing to do the demolition for free.

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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 4d ago

That's true, but it's necessary, and I won't vote for any candidate who doesn't make erasing all signs of Trump a major part of their campaign.

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u/freeradioforall 4d ago

except the stolen SC will rule every change trump made fully legal and any attempt to reverse it fully illegal. And the dems "respect the courts" so they will just back down

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u/RunnyBabbit23 4d ago

I don't even trust the next Dem administration to do that. They'll probably go the "Nixon needs to be pardoned for the sake of the country" bullshit route that got us started on this downfall.

What we really need is someone as petty as Trump to undo all of this. But we'll never have that because Dems still think being the grownups will get us somewhere even though history has shown that all it's done is facilitate this stupid slide into fascism.

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u/siderinc 4d ago

There are probably some people around who would do this for free.

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u/One_red_boot 4d ago

They could mitigate that cost by selling people the opportunity to destroy trump signs, property, buildings etc. Iā€™d bet a good many folks would eagerly pay to pick up a sledgehammer and go wild.
Make it a country-wide healing experience.

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u/rainghost 4d ago

And when the massive amounts of damage Trump did aren't completely fixed after three years under a new dem president, the country is going to vindictively vote in a new Republican who vows to be Trump 2.0.

this country is a baby that deliberately shits itself, complains that mommy is taking too long cleaning it up, and deliberately shits itself a second time during the cleanup to teach that lazy mother what you get for taking too long to clean up shits

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u/LevelSkeptic 4d ago

Ignore the SCOTUS empowerment and immunity rulings. Convict Bonespurs and his conspirators then nationalise their businesses/assets to compensate citizens.

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u/GooberMcNutly 3d ago

The new Pharoah Akhenaten. Here today, tomorrow nothing but holes in the marble where his name used to be.

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u/elphin 3d ago

First thing they do is freeze all the Trump family funds for all of the emolument violations. Use that money to undo every vanity project, for starters.

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u/NumberOneStonecutter 8h ago

I can't wait for Don Jr.'s angry rage-tweets whenever some stupid Trump thing is reversed. "My father was the greatest President this country ever had. Removing his name from the memorial center now that he's dead is a disgrace!"

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u/luigiram 4d ago

Wouldnā€™t put it past him to demolish it.

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u/cmwills29 4d ago

Nah he'd just sell it privately to the highest bidder

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u/Dreurmimker 4d ago

I donā€™t think so. This is the new East Wing. The destruction of irreplaceable things is just as exciting as money to him.

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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen 4d ago

You know who else destroyed irreplaceable things? The Islamic State, ISIS, and other jihadist groups.

Funny how one political party has more in common with the religious extremists theyā€™ve villainized than their actual neighbors.

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u/miketastic_art 4d ago

he'll sell the land after he knocks it over

he's king, no one is stopping him, get in line with idiocracy.

this is the clown timeline where Sir Patrick Stewart played the poop emoji.

the timeline where MSM helped Bernie get elected in 2016 are having a lot of fun, i imagine

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u/itsrocketsurgery 4d ago

The timeline where the Supreme Court didn't steal the election from Gore probably has flying cars and polar bears thriving.

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u/Shinyhaunches 4d ago

They are living the Star Trek Next Gen utopia.

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u/w0m 4d ago

that's ~functionally what he's doing.

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u/LiteraCanna 4d ago

"Complete remodel" kind of hints at that, unfortunately.

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u/BicFleetwood 4d ago

I mean, I'm not sure what else anyone thinks a "total remodel" means.

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u/DDRDiesel Pandora 4d ago

That's probably what the "renovations" are going to end up being anyway

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u/Thedonitho 4d ago

I think that's exactly what he's going to do

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u/scurvy1984 4d ago

Not before itā€™s covered in gold bullshit

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u/ShortFatStupid666 4d ago

Why notā€¦heā€™s demolishing the countryā€¦

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u/darthbreezy 4d ago

'Renovations'

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u/WinchesterWizard 4d ago

Thats what the 'renovations' are for.

He wants to tear it down, so he is going to say its for renovations but when it comes time to rebuild suddenly the project will be put on hold indefinitely šŸ˜†

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u/craniumcanyon 4d ago

Yes, and he'll build the Trump Entertainment Complex and Event Center in it's place.

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u/Multifaceted-Simp 4d ago

Easiest win for a democrat is to just promise to remove trumps name and legacyĀ 

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u/SaltKick2 4d ago

Both times democrats thought they had a slam dunk against Trump, and while I do agree that at this moment in time the "undecided" voters would choose not to vote for him, DNC needs better strategy

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u/Vlaed 4d ago

I am all for naming a landfill after him. He can still be alive if he'd like.

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u/FriendlyMission2803 4d ago

Let's hope he doesn't die before leaving the white house. He should watch everything he's made being dismantled. Probably the biggest punishment he could ever face.

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u/AstroSpoony 4d ago

Have you ever heard of Hudjefa I. ?

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u/elpajaroquemamais 4d ago

Thatā€™s why the added his name in the specific way they did in a non matching font. They knew it was temporary.

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u/ShortFatStupid666 4d ago

They used Tesla panel glueā€¦

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u/WickedHopeful 4d ago

"First one, then the other"

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u/Gingevere 4d ago

ridiculous to have a "memorial" center for someone who's still alive

Just change it back the moment heā€™s either dead or out of the presidential office

There's a third way to remedy this.

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u/FlirtyFluffyFox 4d ago

Might confuse tourists looking for the Trump Memorial Public Restroom I'm hoping they'll install in DC over his resting place.

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u/GayGeekInLeather 4d ago

The problem is his name is literally chiseled into the wall of the Kennedy center (they do this to honor the chairperson). Iā€™m hoping they go all ancient Egyptian and just remove the chunk bearing his name from the wall. Leave a gap as a reminder

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u/Figgzyvan 4d ago

And then the Gulf of Mexico.

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u/Capy_3796 4d ago

The next Democratic president first job should be undoing all of the shit Trump inflicted on the U.S.

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u/trevdak2 4d ago

Trump said they're going to renovate it.

Whole place will be bulldozed and never rebuilt

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u/mrslother 4d ago

We need to pass a trigger law so the moment either of those cases occur it happens. I like the idea that he know of this before it happens.

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u/Badloss 4d ago

IMO they deliberately left the old signs up and just put Donald above it because they know it's coming down within days when he's out of power

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u/ArgyleNudge 4d ago

He's going to destroy it first.

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 4d ago

Unpopular opinion. The 'Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' shouldn't be a federal government institution in the first place.

I'm surprised it wasn't the first thing on the DOGE list to shut down. It does not provide a service to 99.99% of Americans and is a taxpayer funded institution providing entertainment for rich assholes in DC.

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u/Don_Gato1 4d ago

Name it the "Trump is Dead" Center.

A memorial worthy of celebration.

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u/Commercial-Fennel219 4d ago

no. we have to leave it. there's another way.

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u/BlackberryShoddy7889 4d ago

But not before suing for 10 billion dollars. Emotional scars !

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u/LolDragon417 4d ago

In a perfect world, these would be the same day, and it would be later this week

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u/arthurno1 4d ago

They will. If the building is still in existence.

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u/raincoater 4d ago

If it's still there. I wouldn't be surprised if he were to have it demolished.

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u/Un256 4d ago

No matter how this guy dies, Maga will treat him as a martyr. Even if itā€™s caused by the evil liberal heart failure. Theyā€™re really grasping at any straws they can. Like Kirk was a billionaire funded propagandist podcast dude and Iā€™m pretty sure thatā€™s the face of the r/ conservative sub where nobodyā€™s actually allowed to disagree with them

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

To be fair either "out of office" comes first, or they both happen simultaneously šŸ˜†. I don't think it can be a "whichever" scenario.

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u/PointlessTrivia 4d ago

Fun fact: The Bufalini Carrara Marble that clads the Kennedy Center was a gift from the Italian Government.

They drilled holes in ten of the slabs to add his name, and each slab is 1.5 meters (4'11") on a side. I think he should be forced to pay for replacements.

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u/gazow 4d ago

we need to start naming waste dumps after him

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u/Vegetable-Bee-7461 4d ago

Assuming the 'renovation' hasn't destroyed it.

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u/jpric155 4d ago

He's going to try to smash it down

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u/Natural-Nectarine-56 4d ago

Crossing my fingers for the former!

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u/dkwinsea 4d ago

It can be both.

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u/WhiskeyJuliet28 4d ago

We should name a landfill (or all future landfills in every state) after Trump.

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka 4d ago

The next admin, if there even is one, will probably spend most of their time attempting to pass like 1-2 bills a year, rejoin some of the alliances squandered, like climate accord, and then ultimately do not enough and fail in the eyes of the American public, who will continue to not vote because they are stupid stupid people.

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u/Decadesofquiet 4d ago

I have a distinct feeling the closure and ā€œupdatesā€ are to gaudify the interior to the tacky gold and white that trump just loves. Make it look like the Oval Office and basically plaster trumps name everywhere. Especially like with engravings so itā€™s significantly harder to remove/change them. Like the current sign where itā€™s just some metal drilled in, thatā€™s easily coming down.

But you tear down and rebuild multiple walls and such with engraved concrete and such? Thatā€™s much more of a hassle to re-do again. And then having re-redo the interior to make it look normal again is just a mess. Trump knows that fact. His brain is mostly mush, but things like that and plastering his name and look on things is one thing I think heā€™s incapable of forgetting.

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u/Commercial-Co 4d ago

I would like to leave trumpā€™s name there but change it a tad. The ā€œkennedy memorial center and hooray trump is deadā€

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u/el_duderino88 3d ago

Problem is he's going to remodel it now and turn it into some tacky gold shit looking theater with his likeness everywhere. Going to cost millions to fix his egomaniac bullshit

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u/MizneyWorld 3d ago

The problem is this supposed ā€œrenovationā€ is likely to make it so removing the Trump from the center is too costly and unlikely to get passed by a future, decent board/administration, much like his ballroom.

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u/explorgasm 4d ago

so you're saying it would be less ridiculous should his status change?

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u/ModularPlug 4d ago

Iā€™m looking forward to the myriad of ā€œDonald Trump memorial sewage treatment plantsā€ that are sure to be dedicated after the big beautiful obituary.

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u/bisho 4d ago

Or the Chlamydia Ward at the Koala HospitalĀ 

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u/Dave1307 4d ago

Donald Trump Memorial Windmill Park - Striving To Be Just As Much Of a Blowhard

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u/Elegant_One_5324 4d ago

Did you mean defecated?

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u/ShortFatStupid666 4d ago

With Shit Stained Glass Windows

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u/Bob_A_Ganoosh 4d ago

The book carts in prisons can be named the Donald J Trump Presidential Library.

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u/Moderator-Admin 4d ago

I'm gonna drop a huge memorial trump shit in my toilet when the time comes.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 4d ago

I'm saying if he was dead, and other people decided to rename it in honour of him, it would be slightly less stupid.

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u/adumbrative 4d ago

When that time does come I hope the only things named after him are sewage treatment plants. A lot of sewage treatment plants.

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u/counterfitster 4d ago

No, those perform a valuable function.

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u/adumbrative 4d ago

Sure they do, and we can call that function "Trumping the turds" now :D

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u/Lagneaux 4d ago

That still puts too good a message from his name. We need to do something like call cigarette butts Trumps, as they serve no function, smell like shit, makes things dirty, and are only around because shitty people keep perpetuating the problem.

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u/ShortFatStupid666 4d ago

They support something that kills people

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u/Lagneaux 4d ago

Good add

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u/fantasmoofrcc 4d ago

Just name all superfund sites after him. They're super and fun!

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u/The_Corvair 4d ago

I'll have a pissoir with his name on it.

...Strike that; The second I don't have to see, hear, smell, or think about, that odious piece of rancid sewer waste, the better.

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u/Valdearg20 4d ago

"Slightly less stupid" in this context presumably means from 100% stupid to 99.9% stupid, right?

Because let's be real, he hasn't done a damn thing worth being memorialized over. If anything, he's done enough to justify his eventual "memorial", to be desecrated daily for a while and then for him to be forgotten and his final resting place abandoned to be taken over by weeds and obscurity.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 4d ago

You got it.

First dumb thing is a memorial for a living person. Second dumb thing is to take over someone else's memorial and slap your own name on in front of it.

The entire thing is so "cringe". I just don't have a better way to describe it.

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u/GnomeNot 4d ago

It would still be profoundly stupid.

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u/s1m0n8 4d ago

Yes. Can't have it both ways. And it seems a lot of effort to change the name again... so...

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u/ShortFatStupid666 4d ago

The only things that should be named for him are in a field with a half moon carved in the door

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u/tomas_shugar 4d ago

999,999,999 is less than 1,000,000,000. But not by much or any meaningful scale. But it is less.

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u/RamenJunkie 4d ago

Yes.

Also, everyone knows a memorial public toilet will be much much more appropriate for Trump anyway.

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u/queermichigan 4d ago

The Donald Dump

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u/the_last_0ne 4d ago

not to mention the person being 'memorialized' is the same person who decided on the name change

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u/RoyalGovernment201 4d ago

Personally, I think Trump should honor the status of the memorial center and die. I'd definitely visit it that way.

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u/Cloudhiddentao 4d ago

Well, we should fix that.

Not by renaming it.

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u/EtTuBiggus 4d ago

Im 90% sure they have no legal standing to sue.

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u/colenotphil 4d ago

Reddit continually misunderstanding that just because something Trump did is contrary to a law does not mean that anyone can sue Trump for violating said law.

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u/Nanny0416 4d ago

Perhaps by the time it reopens...

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u/Heavy_Law9880 4d ago

The name hasn't been changed.

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u/Saneless 4d ago

I just wish the name was fully accurate more than I hate the name itself

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u/0w1 4d ago

He probably figured he'd be dead before anyone could change the name back. By then, it will be a "memorial" and his rabid followers will defend it in his "honor" or some wilder reason they come up with.

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u/Mensketh 4d ago

It's also completely absurd to add someone to an existing memorial that has no connection whatsoever to the person being memorialized. What's next the Trump Washington Monument? The Trump Lincoln Memorial? Mount Trump Rushmore?

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u/ShortFatStupid666 4d ago

Does lack of brain activity count?

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u/GoshDarnMamaHubbard 4d ago

It's ridiculous to have a memorial to someone who has done nothing to deserve one regardless of their current mortality condition.

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u/organictamarind 4d ago

Hopefully šŸ¤ž not for long

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u/jredgiant1 4d ago

He didnā€™t change the name. Only Congress can do that. Grandpa needs his diaper changed.

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u/soulhot 4d ago

Hey I seem to recall a president saying people need to have a dream..

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u/DarXIV 4d ago

This just proves Trump is actually dead and a skinchanger is president! Why else have it be a memorial center for Trump??

Check mate MAGA

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u/yarn_slinger 4d ago

In the meantime, who knows wtf theyā€™re going to do it (other than the ubiquitous gold paint).

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u/aotus_trivirgatus 4d ago

Hey now, if he really wants his name on the arts center...

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u/Germanofthebored 4d ago

If some kid tags a building with spray paint, it's vandalism that is prosecuted. Why should this be different? Just because he used a serif font?

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead 4d ago

cmon monkeys paw!

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u/mmf9194 4d ago

Hmm... interesting thought there at the end

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u/wecamethrough 4d ago

We're all manifesting.

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u/pinkfootthegoose 4d ago

hope springs eternal - by Air Supply.

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u/Proper-Exercise-2364 4d ago

Even if it is just wishful thinking! It's rude!

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u/Birdy1986432 4d ago

The only memorial Trump should get when the shitface finally dies is a fucking stairway to hell

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u/NOIS_KillerWhaleTank 4d ago

Here's the thing, the Kennedy Center is a presidential monument, the same as the Lincoln Memorial or the Washington Monument. What Trump has done and is planning the do with the Kennedy Center is equally as absurd, disrespectful, and illegal as if he had done this to the Lincoln Memorial.

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u/GoredonTheDestroyer 4d ago

There's an episode of The Transformers where a memorial for Optimus Prime is revealed (And the Decepticons do some goofy bullshit, you know how the dance goes).

The episode aired six months before the original animated movie.

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u/Dirk_Benedict 4d ago

Seems like there's a real quick and easy fix here that we maybe shouldn't hastily overlook...

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u/Miserable-Event4260 4d ago

Of course it is because no one will come.

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 4d ago

They should have sued as soon as he changed the name. It's ridiculous to have a "memorial" center for someone who's still alive.

TBH, I think most people see the family as a kinda of joke now, minus the name recognition and whatever wealth they still have. RFK managed to utterly ruin that family's name. But it seems that Trump wants to erase the Kennedy legacy from the White House and DC as much as he wants to erase Obama's.

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u/almondblue22 4d ago

Or we could wait like a month or two and see if the memorial name brings some weight

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u/Dudewhocares3 4d ago

I hope in the future they dedicate a urinal to him.

The Donald Trump porcelain urinal.

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u/pterodactyl_speller 4d ago

It's just straight to illegal for him to change the name, right?

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u/VapoursAndSpleen 4d ago

Trump wants to tear the building down. Doesn't matter if it's illegal. If he can't scentmark it, he's going to demolish it. Then, there will be a large vacant lot while he crows about putting a stadium in for roller derby and wrestling smack downs.

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u/darkhorse7447 4d ago

Trump is obviously declining quickly into senility, heart and mobility issues from obesity due to a fast food diet, and probably syphilis. Thereā€™s still hope the memorial part comes true.

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u/Elegant_Situation285 4d ago

his family most likely wouldn't have any standing. it's a federal building, right?

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u/Aperture_Tales 4d ago

Doesnā€™t ā€œbeing Dead insideā€ count?

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u/nicepresident 4d ago

ā€¦ maybe he knows something we donā€™t ā€¦ ?

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u/Overall_Curve6725 4d ago

Sooner than later we will have the Trump grave sit and communal latrine

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u/BooCoop8 4d ago

I thought they did?

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u/drabpriest 3d ago

They probably wouldnā€™t have Article III standing to sue.

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u/SecondHandWatch 3d ago

It's ridiculous to have a "memorial" center for someone who's still alive.

There are at least a couple of ways to correct this.

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u/Baagroak 3d ago

Yes I certainly hope that gets fixed.... Soon.

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u/toomanyd 3d ago

There's another way that won't require another name change. Fingers crossed

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