White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday that the President Trump-chaired board of the Kennedy Center voted to rename the DC performance venue the “Trump-Kennedy Center.”
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“I have just been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building,” Leavitt wrote on X.
“Not only from the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially, and its reputation. Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur.”
Earlier this month, the U.S. Institute of Peace also was renamed in honor of the sitting president.
Robert Zimmerman, appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Kennedy Center’s President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts, condemned the latest rebrand.
“Trump has turned the internationally acclaimed Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts into an Atlantic City lounge act for right wing demagogues,” Zimmerman said.
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