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.

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    There must be at least one example where trump accepted no for an answer (but I can’t think of any).

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    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.

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      This is part of their strategy, because if a Democrat did win, the expectation is that they would, at best, follow typical procedure and it would take years and they would have people delay and maybe even turn it into a wedge in a subsequent election.

      trump will not leave office without knowing what it is like to press the red button though. Doesn’t seem like there will be a next attempt at anything.

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      Wipe out the last 40 years of heritage foundation rot, or we may as well kiss this shitty country good bye

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          Whoa, hey now, watch your tone when you talk about the country that elected an ancient felonious pedophile to its highest office not once, but two times, because he didn’t get enough crimes done the first time.

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      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.

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    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.

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        Being more competent isn’t hard, more evil will be a challenge, but the real struggle will be finding someone more charismatic to be the central figure maintaining the cult.

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      When you or some other person(s) get off your address and get to work. So probably not soon enough

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    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.

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        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.

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          Don’t worry, they will. Its Schumer and Bookers dream to piss and shit the bed so everything can “return to normal”.

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          Only if we get rid of the establishment and corporate/AIPAC owned Democrats. And even then only maybe. Trump was allowed to turn ICE into an extremely well funded personal army that doesn’t swear to uphold the Constitution. Even if Democrat Socialists sweep the midterms, it seems likely that will result in him getting even more extreme in ignoring the laws and court orders.

          What happens if he decides to use the imaginary authority he granted himself over revoking citizenship with his last illegal executive order to declare that all the Democrats in congress who weren’t born in the US or had a parent from any country he decides to call an enemy are no longer US citizens and send large groups of ICE goons to kidnap them?

          If anyone else did something like that the President could call on the US Military to defend them, but he clearly wouldn’t do that when he’s the one ordering it. It’s very possible that since so much of the Republican party is fully owned by him, Congress wouldn’t have the votes to do anything against it. If it’s something done quickly and quietly and those representatives are removed before Congress can act they certainly wouldn’t, and even if they managed to and did have the votes the President is still Commander-in-Chief.

          To put the military in a position where obeying him is clearly wrong they’d have to vote to remove him entirely, which would take two thirds of the Senate and by default promote JD Vance to President.

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    It will also serve as a memorial to former President John F. Kennedy.

    And if that sentence felt like an afterthought just wait until we see this memorial