Republicans are attempting to totally cement President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Middle in Washington, D.C., after a Republican lawmaker launched a invoice to take away former President John F. Kennedy’s title from the constructing and substitute it with Expensive Chief’s.
The invoice, launched by Missouri GOP Rep. Bob Onder, is known as the Make Leisure Nice Once more Act. If handed, it could erase Kennedy’s title from the constructing—which was renamed after Kennedy in 1964 following his assassination and serves as “a dwelling memorial” to the late president, and name it the Donald J. Trump Middle for the Performing Arts.
“You’d be arduous pressed to discover a extra important cultural icon up to now 40 years than President Trump,” Onder mentioned in a information launch that heaped reward upon Expensive Chief. “President Trump’s love and mastery of leisure has stood the check of time and allowed him to seize Individuals’ consideration for many years. I can’t consider a extra ubiquitous image of American exceptionalism within the arts, leisure, and in style tradition at giant than President Trump.”
Altering the title of the Kennedy Middle would absolutely cement Trump’s takeover of the performing arts powerhouse. Already, Trump fired your complete Kennedy Middle board of trustees and changed them together with his personal MAGA bootlickers with the intention to change the form of programming that’s featured within the constructing. Trump then claimed the board unanimously made him chairman.
Republicans are additionally attempting to rename the Kennedy Middle’s Opera Home—one among plenty of theaters contained in the constructing—after first girl Melania Trump in one more ridiculous and divisive transfer.
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However renaming the complete constructing after Trump would doubtless additional injury the performing arts heart. Already, artists have determined to not deliver their reveals or performances to the middle in protest of Trump’s takeover. And ticket gross sales have slumped as a lot as 50%, as patrons additionally determine they don’t need to financially help Trump’s hostile takeover and modifications. However that does not matter to congressional Republicans, who will do something to show their love and devotion to their MAGA God.
Apart from desirous to rename the Kennedy Middle after Trump, congressional Republicans have additionally launched payments that will put Trump’s face on the $100 invoice, add Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore, and rename Dulles Worldwide Airport in Virginia after him. Different Republicans have moved to nominate Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, the long-elusive honor that Trump is so mad he will not ever get.
The Republican ass kissing of Expensive Chief is actually abdomen churning.
