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.
Don’t worry, they will. Its Schumer and Bookers dream to piss and shit the bed so everything can “return to normal”.
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.
Believing the democrats will do that is like believing the Avengers will come save you
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.
I’m confused. You say “here”, but then claim to be from a country being bombed by trump. What’s your nationality?
Huh? Not sure where I said I was from somewhere other then the y’all zone in the USA. The USA does attack me and my people through the police state (war on drugs) and the economic system on a daily basis. Perhaps I was talking about that in a comment you read.
Oh no not the shitty country that attacks me and my people daily!
This is what I was asking about. It sounds like you were saying that you were in one of the various countries this country bombs or otherwise attacks on a daily basis.
He isn’t, but you or I would.
Corollary: Is this still a nation?
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
Oh no not the shitty country that attacks me and my people daily!
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you read today’s news in 1978 you would not believe one word of it - we have very definitely lost the US govt as we knew it. I’d also say the public in general is also less intelligent and increasingly misinformed.
I’ve heard that the great wizard even turned his back on them.
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.
Unfortunately a large percentage of the country is in a place where if they don’t go to work for a few days they’re homeless and have no way to buy food.
Effectively eliminating their political power which means finding people who have the means and can represent them outside the established political system. The retired and the economically well off. Or technological solutions that help reduce the cost and time of participation.
Republicans aren’t leaving. Regardless of the election outcome, they are there to stay. You just realized this?!
Somewhere a sitout is still complaining about a war and a womans funny laugh.
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.
Fascism isn’t going away when he dies. Americans are getting a more competent and evil replacement.
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.
When you or some other person(s) get off your address and get to work. So probably not soon enough
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”
Asking Putin for permission to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine?
Ok fine. Fuck the Kennedy Center for ever and ever.
I’m sure Trump would be just fine tearing down the whole building out of spite. He tore up half the Whitehouse and he lives there!
Wouldn’t it have been funny if the demolition team didn’t know where to stop and took the whole thing down
Man that construction company that tore part of the white house down, the owner is going to need to leave the country.
I keep thinking what would be the Republican response if Biden or Obama did that and it just breaks my brain thinking of the chaos it would have unleashed. Like trying to divide by zero
They would have called Obama a Muslim terrorist planted by Al-Queda to destroy America
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.
taxpayer will pay for DoJ to prosecute and sue djt
carving into it only means
hwe’ll have to pay more to fix the marble when the time comesCorrect a small mistake
i definitely meant HIM.
Regardless of what you meant, If you think he’s going to pay money to repair any of the billions (if not trillions) of dollars of damage he’s done to us, you’d be incorrect.
I’m banking on zero accountability.
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
WTAF? I thought these assholes were told to stop this shit.
Disgusting.
Wrt the “newer expansion to the building” they spelled The Reich wrong.
