{"id":6872,"date":"2025-12-25T22:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:51:58","slug":"kennedy-center-gets-renamed-to-trump-kennedy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6872","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center gets renamed to Trump-Kennedy Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\">\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong class=\"published\"><span id=\"publishDate\" class=\"value-title\" title=\"2025-12-25\"\/>Thursday, December 25, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"Z3988\" style=\"display:none\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rfr_id=rfr_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:User%3ADendodge&amp;rft_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:Kennedy_Center_gets_renamed_to_Trump-Kennedy_Center&amp;rft.atitle=Kennedy+Center+gets+renamed+to+Trump-Kennedy+Center&amp;rft.jtitle=Wikinews&amp;rft.date=2025-12-25&amp;rft.aucorp=Wikinews+contributors&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.rights=CC-BY+2.5&amp;rft.identifier=%2F%2Fen.wikinews.org%2Fwiki%2FKennedy_Center_gets_renamed_to_Trump-Kennedy_Center&amp;rft.artnum=-\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>The <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kennedy_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\">Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts<\/a><\/span> has been renamed to &#8220;The Trump and Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts.&#8221; by President Donald J. Trump from a board vote by the Kennedy Center board and staff. The sign for the renaming of The &#8220;Trump&#8221; and Kennedy Center was put up on December 19, 2025 and was also visible on The Official Kennedy Center Website.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mw-default-size\" typeof=\"mw:File\/Thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/File:19Trump-news-Kennedy-Center-hkmq-articleLarge.webp\" class=\"mw-file-description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0a\/19Trump-news-Kennedy-Center-hkmq-articleLarge.webp\/250px-19Trump-news-Kennedy-Center-hkmq-articleLarge.webp.png\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0a\/19Trump-news-Kennedy-Center-hkmq-articleLarge.webp\/500px-19Trump-news-Kennedy-Center-hkmq-articleLarge.webp.png 1.5x\" data-file-width=\"600\" data-file-height=\"400\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Kennedy Center being renamed to Kennedy-Trump Center ~ <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/new-signage-the-donald-j-trump-and-the-john-f-kennedy-memorial-center-for-the-performing-arts-is-unveiled-on-the-kennedy-center-friday-dec-19-2025-in-washington-ap-photojacquelyn-martin-image713096665.html?irclickid=0vPVSkXz6xycTgtR3\">Alamy<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This renaming was also under scrutiny by experts and officials like U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty. Several, have called it &#8220;illegal&#8221;, citing The Kennedy Center Act of 1964:  &#8220;SEC. 11. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, designated by this Act, shall be the sole national memorial to the late John Fitzgerald Kennedy within the city of Washington and its environs.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Some commentators and political viewers, like Rachel Maddow, said it would be torn down and renamed back to &#8220;The Kennedy Center.&#8221;, allegedly because a board vote can not outrule Congressional decision. Although this is &#8220;official&#8221; in that the name has been physically changed on the building and website, some people in opposition to the legality of these actions, still reportedly continued to refer to it as &#8220;The Kennedy Center.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nParsed by mw&#8208;web.codfw.main&#8208;ff4bf79f8&#8208;rbn22\nCached time: 20251225214243\nCache expiry: 2592000\nReduced expiry: false\nComplications: [vary&#8208;revision&#8208;sha1]\nCPU time usage: 0.074 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.106 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 406\/1000000\nRevision size: 2591\/2097152 bytes\nPost&#8208;expand include size: 16801\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1715\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 14\/100\nExpensive parser function count: 3\/500\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0\/20\nUnstrip post&#8208;expand size: 2918\/5000000 bytes\nLua time usage: 0.003\/10.000 seconds\nLua memory usage: 607768\/52428800 bytes\nNumber of Wikibase entities loaded: 0\/500\n--><br \/>\n<!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   64.720      1 -total\n 44.59%   28.858      1 Template:Publish\n 41.83%   27.075      1 Template:Social_bookmarks\n 33.03%   21.380      1 Template:Date\n 16.08%   10.407      2 Template:Source\n  8.50%    5.502      3 Template:W\n  5.82%    3.765      2 Template:Source\/pub\n  4.06%    2.626      2 Template:Source\/uc?\n  3.70%    2.393      1 Template:COinS\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwikinews:stable-pcache:3059132:|#|:idhash:canonical and timestamp 20251225214243 and revision id 4964124. 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