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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jul 30, 2025, 12:40 PM Jul 30

Can the Kennedy Center be renamed for the Trumps? [View all]

House Republicans raised a question last week when they advanced an amendment to a spending bill that would change the name of the Kennedy Center’s Opera House to the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House.”

Who has the power to rename part of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — or all of it?

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of the center’s namesake, doesn’t think anyone can.

He posted on Instagram a screenshot from Grok, the AI chatbot integrated with X, which read: “No, Trump cannot unilaterally rename the Kennedy Center’s Opera House after Melania Trump. A Republican-led House panel advanced such a proposal in a spending bill, but JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg argues it violates federal law (Public Law 88-260), which bans additional memorials in the Center. If passed, it could face legal challenges.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/part-kennedy-center-renamed-trumps-194108066.html

The only similarity between JFK and Donald Trump is they both had rich daddies. JFK saw combat in WWII while draft dodger Cadet Bonespurs thought avoiding STDs was his personal Viet Nam.

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