The Kennedy Center’s board voted Thursday to inscribe President Donald Trump’s name into the storied building’s white marble facade and proceed with a lengthy shutdown of the venue to accommodate an extensive $250 million renovation project, according to ex officio member Rep. Joyce Beatty.
The decision comes just months after a judge ruled that separate signage bearing the president’s name had to be taken off the building’s marquee. The new inscription will test the order, though due to ongoing litigation the judge has the power to delay the projects.
The board, which Trump fired en masse last year and restocked with allies, voted to close the center’s main building, while The Reach, a newer expansion to the facility, will remain open for limited events. It will also serve as a memorial to former President John F. Kennedy.
No wonder the tarp never came down.
Sounds like contempt of court to me.
If you wont be punished for breaking the law, are there really laws?
Even if Donnie ends up never being punished, I sure hope the Democrats don’t puss the fuck out on using every tool in the legal arsenal to get every single asshole responsible for shit like this and give them maximum sentences.
Sounds like you have a purity test you want the democrats to pass. Like you want to be represented. We dont do that here.
you will get what you are given, you will shut the fuck up, and you will vote blue no matter who.
carving into it only means he’ll have to pay more to fix the marble when the time comes
Means the taxpayer will have to pay more.
Sure. That’s definitely how this ends.
The next President should expunge trump from all associations with the presidency. All of his appointments should be recalled and everything he’s done should be rolled back. That includes the SCOTUS (especially the SCOTUS) and all thier subsequent “decisions.” A line must be drawn to inform the next demigouge that their fuckery will NOT be tolerated.
Wipe out the last 40 years of heritage foundation rot, or we may as well kiss this shitty country good bye
I have ideas about what to do with Heritage Foundation HQ. Like providing a fine display of whimsical pyrotechnics, while all of their top reps and billionaire friends are inside having a wonderful “charity gala.” My, they’ll never taste such fine caviar again!
Something like this?
Part of the tragedy of the MAGA era is that much of what he’s done cannot be undone, including America’s place in the world order. America will never be the same and will either rise to a fascist dictatorship or fall from its place as the world last superpower.
This is absolutely true. But it’s also probably a permanent degradation of our government.
It’s like Mexico. When corruption becomes endemic in the government, because (like Trump) you’ve fired the neutral government career folks and replaced them with political loyalists who don’t care about actually administering the law, then the next election they get replaced, but because they’re now “in play,” they never again survive administration changes.
So there’s a purge every change of administration. And because at least one side is corrupt, don’t be surprised if during the lead-up to the next administration changeover (assuming we can get that far), Trump’s lackeys destroy records across every institution they control, alongside blanket pardons, just to destroy any chance that the incoming administration can function and transition seamlessly.
The result is no more administrative continuity, chaos and a downward spiral of eroding trust in government.
You sound like Trump talking about Biden or Obama.
No, Trump got rid of NAFTA. Let’s keep that. I’m sure there’s some other broken clock things too
As someone who works in international freight, USMCA is far worse than NAFTA.
Ah, fuck. I didn’t realize he replaced it.
NAFTA was terrible for Mexican workers. How’s USMCA?
More red tape, more paperwork, limits on sourcing of materials, increased documentation of sourcing for each piece of a product, and unlike NAFTA the USMCA isn’t permanent and has to be renegotiated from time to time so that introduces tons of uncertainty into the whole industry.
The only good thing that the USMCA did was mandate wage levels for workers in companies exporting to other member countries. But that could have just been added to NAFTA after some negotiations rather than tearing up the agreement and creating this terrible replacement.
Defacing a historical monument just to be remembered as the biggest failure and embarrassment in American history but it’s a good way to remind future generations to not make the same mistakes.
I’m so tired of the people accommodating this goddamned washed-up snowflake.
Then the marble facade will be removed.
Just like the facade of our democracy. heh
Holy shit. He wasn’t allowed to change it’s name so he’s doing to have his lackeys carve his name into the the side of the building instead.
Nothing happening in the US is sane. This person should have been removed from power by the other branches of government a long time ago. The government is nonfunctional to the point I’m very honestly worried that the Democrats sweeping the midterms won’t make any difference.
Democrats sweeping the midterms is the final check and then it’s all over for the US or we still have a snow ball’s chance in hell.
I think a lot of people still believe that of the Democrats sweep the midterms it will make things better quickly.
I see that as the only good path, but think it would cause him to become even more unstable and try to claim enough Democrats are no longer citizens based on his last legal executive order to create an R majority… and don’t see many Republicans complaining about it.
If Democrats take all of the senate seats that are up for election, they’ll be able to get the two thirds majority needed to convict him in the senate after impeachment. The odds of that happening are somewhere between slim and none.
Otherwise, unless some of the Republican senators cross the aisle, you’re stuck with President Trump for the next couple of years assuming he survives.
The problem is that even if the Democrats sweep every possible seat, if that executive order was written with that in mind and he quietly writes something declaring that a lot of those Democrats in Congress are no longer US citizens and large well-armed groups of ice are sent to kidnap a whole lot of them in a surprise raid…
And no system or mechanism, no will or organization of citizens has rallied to stop any of it. America is in civil war right now and the citizens refuse to acknowledge it or are too occupied to be able to do anything about it.
God, when is this fat sack of shit going to die and just go away? I’ve started searching his name every day just looking for an obituary news article. How someone can be so far in mental decline, and people are still lining up to lick his ball sack is beyond me.
He is too stupid to be making all these decisions and actions on his own. Even if he dies the ones controlling him and telling him what to do will still be in power. Believe me Trump is not in control of anything. He is being manipulated and basically being fed to do all these awful things. I hate the fucker but I’ll never believe that he’s really the one in control
If I did this, I would be held in contempt and thrown behind bars.
Ah but you’re not rich, you see
There must be at least one example where trump accepted no for an answer (but I can’t think of any).
“bubba, my jaw is sore, can we take a break?”
“no”
“ok”
