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Part 2 of our Kennedy Center deep dive is live.
A federal judge has twice ruled Trump's name can't go on the building without Congress. Trump says without it, the Center could end up "ripped down." The Justice Department floated an amphitheater in its place. A Senate bill to protect memorials from demolition? One senator objected.
Aure Free Press follows the paper trail.
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We used to be a dead country, says the creep fucker who wrecked the Kennedy Center. #Today #KennedyCenter
NAMING RIGHTS & WRONGS
For the first time ever, the Kennedy Center Honors will be held outside the Kennedy Center.
The building is DETERIORATING, but Trump said the renovation won't happen unless a court ruling on his name is overturned. He demands his name be on the wall.
Part 1 of our new two-part deep dive is out now. Part 2 drops Sunday.
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NOTE: Considering all the music equipment being moved out of the Center having the honors go forward when the building is being torn down is going to be very interesting in it’s timing…
From WTOP.com: Kennedy Center Honors to be held at Capital One Arena amid fight over adding Trump’s name
They're emptying the Kennedy Center.
Fuckers.
#kennedycenter #trump #DC #news #DCnews #breakingnews #destroyingamerica #criminals #thearts #art #DMV #memorial #JFK #nationalnews
Kennedy Center Honors awards moved to new venue amid Trump’s onslaught
By Marina Dunbar
Ceremony will not be hosted at its traditional home for the first time since awards began in 1978
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/02/kennedy-center-honors-awards-venue-moved
#WashingtonDC #KennedyCenter #DonaldTrump #USnews #USpolitics #TheGuardian #MarinaDunbar
Kennedy Center Honors awards moved to new venue amid Trump’s onslaught https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/02/kennedy-center-honors-awards-venue-moved #WashingtonDc #KennedyCenter #DonaldTrump #UsNews #UsPolitics
Kennedy Center Honors To Move To Capital One Arena Amid Closure Of Arts Complex
#News #Politics #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #KennedyCenter #KennedyCenterHonors
https://deadline.com/2026/10/kennedy-center-honors-capital-one-arena-1237145621/
Steinway pianos were seen being moved out of Kennedy Center. Reporter Sarah K. Burris: “Steinway told me that they’re moving them all over to the Georgetown showroom where the owner is also selling his pianos at a high discount because he wants to retire. When I asked Steinway why the Kennedy Center would be selling all of their Steinways, she said, ‘Well, they’re closed.’” #KennedyCenter
https://www.fogolf.com/1404109/trumps-proposed-golf-course-in-dc-could-cost-nearly-50-million-documents-show-9/ Trump’s proposed golf course in DC could cost nearly $50 million, documents show #Donald #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpGolf #DonaldTrumpGolfing #EastPotomacPark #KennedyCenter #KennedyCenterRenaming #trump #TrumpArch #TrumpGolf #TrumpGolfCourse #TrumpGolfing
GOP senator blocks effort to bar Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center
A Republican senator squashed a bipartisan push to prohibit the Trump administration from demolishing the John F. Kennedy…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #actofCongress #JeffMerkley #KennedyCenter #LisaMurkowski #MikeLee #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/752715/
https://www.europesays.com/news/83398/ GOP senator blocks effort to bar Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center #ActOfCongress #Headlines #JeffMerkley #KennedyCenter #LisaMurkowski #MikeLee #News #TopStories
Go, taunt it yourself.
It won't tell you about a certain #OurPutin's felonies. But it will tell you the Kennedy Center's off limits (until he rolls in tanks, of course).
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If #Trump gave one shit about the #KennedyCenter as an arts institution, he wouldn't care about getting credit for "saving" it. That he insists he'll let it fall apart and then be demolished unless *his* name is plastered at the top of the sign, since only he can (or will be allowed to) raise the money demonstrates it's only stroking his colossal ego he's concerned with. To hell with him.
DOJ blasts court block on Kennedy Center repairs 'existential' threat
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/29/kennedy-center-trump-appeals-court/92004039007/
Senator Mike Lee (R) killed the #bipartisan bill last night. NEW BILL introduced today (!) to protect USA monuments from #DearLeader.
[free Yahoo reprint of Forbes article]
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/bill-prevent-kennedy-center-demolition-140644077.html
US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress’s approval https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/sep/29/bill-trump-demolish-kennedy-center #KennedyCenter #UsCongress #UsPolitics #UsNews #DonaldTrump #UsSenate
US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress’s approval
By Joseph Gedeon in Washington
Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/sep/29/bill-trump-demolish-kennedy-center
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/774/ This week: Senate takes final votes before elections – Roll Call #Business #california #Campaigns #Congress #Democrats #election #Elections #Elections&Voting #Energy #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #EPA #ExecutiveBranch #HomelandSecurity #House #Intelligence #JoeBiden #KennedyCenter #Leadership #MariaCantwell #MartinHeinrich #NewMexico #Ohio #Republicans #Science #Senate #SherrodBrown #StockMarket #tech #TedCruz #texas #Transportation #trump #Voting #Washington
Debbie Allen Recalls Inviting George Bush to Appear on Netflix’s Timely ‘A Different World’ Sequel
#TV #TVFeatures #ADifferentWorld #DebbieAllen #KennedyCenter #Netflix #RoseanneBarr
https://www.europesays.com/news/82562/ Sen Kennedy proposes ban on naming buildings after living public officials #DonaldTrump #Headlines #KennedyCenter #News #Politics #Senate #TopStories #WashingtonDC
Trump now says the Kennedy Center could be deadly. Months ago, it was ‘great.’ - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/Dxm7l
"The president’s assessment of the Kennedy Center’s physical condition grew increasingly dire after his name went up on the building and revenue began to plunge."
🪧 The message is simple: keep Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center and respect the court’s ruling. Sign the petition now. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372... #KeepTrumpsNameOff #KennedyCenter
🪧 The message is simple: keep Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center and respect the court’s ruling. Sign the petition now. https://www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372/?TAP=2954&source_id=TrumpKennedyCenter #KeepTrumpsNameOff #KennedyCenter
Drop by Drop Upon the Heart: On the Kennedy Center, the Kennedys’ Classics, and What a Nation Owes its Dead
On the afternoon of December 19, 2025, the board of the Kennedy Center voted to put a living president's name on a dead president's memorial. By evening, the letters were on the marble. A congresswoman who sits on that board by law tried to speak. They muted her microphone and called the vote unanimous. Chuck Redd, the jazz drummer who had played Christmas Eve at the center for years, saw the new name on the website, then on the building itself. He canceled within hours. Two years of this, in one afternoon: the inheritance retitled behind closed doors, the objection silenced, the musicians out in the cold. […]
https://www.europesays.com/people/242902/ Barbra Streisand Slams Trump’s ‘Unchecked Ego’ as POTUS Hints at Kennedy Center Demolition #BarbraStreisand #BILLBOARD #CulturalInstitution #DonaldTrump #KennedyCenter #POTUS #PresidentJohnFKennedy #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates
"Why does that loser Gerry Ford get a theater named after him?!? I can walk AND chew gum! More ketchup!"
— Donald J. Trump
#KennedyCenter #FordsTheater #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
‘President Donald Trump may get another chance to put his name on the Kennedy Center after the institution’s Trump-appointed leaders warned that it is on the brink of bankruptcy and that adding the president's moniker to the facade, thus ensuring his fundraising efforts, may be the only way to keep it afloat.’ Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/kennedy-center-donald-trump-naming-list-12440396
Image if you will. You’re in the Twilight Zone, and Trump changes the Nobel Prize to the Trump prize for stable geniuses. All it costs is 1 billion $ coins and you get the great scientific honour of contributing to his derangement syndrome! His idea fails to stop it becoming a pandemic, so nearly everyone in his world suffers from it and his trillions of $ coins become worthless. The moral, the great Trump is forgotten, only his ashes are left to drift across a toxic hellscape of derangement. #KennedyCenter #TheTwilightZone #TrumpDerangementSyndrome
The #KennedyCenter was thriving until #Trump took over #journalism #poli... https://youtube.com/shorts/er7E8dFRaH0?si=EcZ_zKlkINqCAqy1 via @YouTube
https://www.fogolf.com/1395032/trumps-proposed-golf-course-in-dc-could-cost-nearly-50-million-documents-show-8/ Trump’s proposed golf course in DC could cost nearly $50 million, documents show #Donald #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpGolf #DonaldTrumpGolfing #EastPotomacPark #KennedyCenter #KennedyCenterRenaming #trump #TrumpArch #TrumpGolf #TrumpGolfCourse #TrumpGolfing
New York Times: How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center. “The center’s first Trump-appointed director, Richard Grenell, pursued a plan, not previously reported, to replace works in the center’s art collection, including gifts from foreign nations honoring Kennedy, with art selected by Trump patrons. ‘You can definitely start sending stuff back to the countries who donated it now,’ Mr. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/22/new-york-times-how-president-trump-broke-the-kennedy-center/
https://washingtonian.com/2026/07/11/kennedy-center-gold-portraits-of-trump-elon-musk-rfk-jr/
I've only just now learned about this MAGA kitsch.
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The #KennedyCenter was thriving until #Trump took over #journalism #politics #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er7E8dFRaH0
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This is what the Kennedy Center will look like after the renovation.
Anyone going as Elon this Halloween? Here’s a model for you, though it’s a bit scary.
#elonmusk #halloween #kennedycenter #trump
Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Senator/Representative:
I am writing to urge immediate congressional intervention after the board voted Sept. 15 to close the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The vote came shortly after a federal judge again blocked a plan to add President Trump's name to the building.
Congress already funds the center's capital and maintenance needs each year ($32 million to $43 million) and last year appropriated $257 million (about six times annual budgets) for repairs in the One Big Beautiful Bill. A board in place for more than a year has had ample opportunity to make a case for additional structural repairs to lawmakers. It should not be allowed to bypass Congress now.
I am asking that you demand a public, independent analysis of the building. I urge you to co-sponsor or introduce legislation reaffirming congressional authority over the center's governance, design and maintenance without delay. The bill should prohibit the president from renaming, closing or altering the center in any way without Congressional authorization.
The Kennedy Center deserves to remain what Congress intended: a dignified, solemn memorial and cultural institution for all Americans, not yet another project designed primarily for the president’s ego.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #KennedyCenter
