{"id":4890,"date":"2025-12-18T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:00:41","slug":"kennedy-center-to-be-renamed-trump-kennedy-center-white-house-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4890","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The board of the Kennedy Center has voted to rename the performing arts centre  the Trump-Kennedy Center, according to the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on social media the board&#8217;s vote was unanimous and due to &#8220;the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Leavitt also congratulated President John F. Kennedy and said &#8220;this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The move would be highly controversial, particularly in Washington DC where the centre has been an iconic landmark since constructed and named for Kennedy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Shorty after taking office, President Donald Trump fired all the centre&#8217;s board members, and replaced them with allies, who then voted to make Trump chairman of the board. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The president secured about $257 million in congressional funding to pay for major renovations and other costs at the venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The idea for a national performing arts centre began in the 1950s and when Kennedy, the 35th president, was assassinated in 1963, the venue was named in his honour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Kennedy #Center #renamed #TrumpKennedy #Center #White #House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The board of the Kennedy Cente&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}