Judge rules that Washington DC performing arts venue cannot be renamed without an act of Congress

A judge on Friday ordered the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ruling that the prestigious Washington DC venue cannot be renamed without an act of Congress.

US district judge Christopher Cooper in Washington directed the Trump administration to take down all physical signage bearing Trump’s name and to eliminate any references to a “Trump Kennedy Center” from official materials within 14 days.

“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so,” Cooper wrote in a 94-page opinion. “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.”

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    His voters will only applaud him for it because “he’s sticking it to the man”. The man is they themselves but I doubt they will ever see that

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      To MAGA, “The Man” is anyone with an advanced degree and/or a position of responsibility in an institution.

      They hate “people who think they know better than me just because they went to college too long and chair some Board of Whatever”

      They love “one of us” like RFK or Ka$h – who don’t seem like ‘educated intellectual’ types – in those leadership roles.

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        Yes but the one Trump is sticking it to is them primarily. They’re the ones that suffer the most as a result of his politics. Especially in the long run.

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          It’s impossible for us to comprehend the Trump voter.

          I used to be able to squint and maybe, somehow, someway go… Ok yea I get it, as flawed as the reasoning is… I get it kind of sort of…

          But after Jan 6th, after all the Trump Epstein Files , there is zero rationality.

          These people are fucked in the head and in a real life death cult. This is no longer hyperbole.