Republicans try to totally cement President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Middle in Washington, D.C., after a Republican lawmaker launched a invoice to take away former President John F. Kennedy’s title from the constructing and exchange it with Pricey Chief’s.
The invoice, launched by Missouri GOP Rep. Bob Onder, is known as the Make Leisure Nice Once more Act. If handed, it could erase Kennedy’s title from the constructing—which was renamed after Kennedy in 1964 following his assassination and serves as “a living memorial” to the late president, and name it the Donald J. Trump Middle for the Performing Arts.
A cartoon by Clay Jones.
Altering the title of the Kennedy Middle would absolutely cement Trump’s takeover of the performing arts powerhouse. Already, Trump fired your entire Kennedy Middle board of trustees and changed them along with his personal MAGA bootlickers as a way to change the sort of programming that’s featured within the constructing. Trump then claimed the board unanimously made him chairman.
Republicans are additionally attempting to rename the Kennedy Middle’s Opera Home—certainly one of plenty of theaters contained in the constructing—after first woman Melania Trump in yet one more ridiculous and divisive transfer.
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However renaming your entire constructing after Trump would seemingly additional harm the performing arts heart. Already, artists have determined to not convey their exhibits or performances to the middle in protest of Trump’s takeover. And ticket gross sales have slumped as a lot as 50%, as patrons additionally resolve they don’t need to financially assist Trump’s hostile takeover and modifications. However that does not matter to congressional Republicans, who will do something to show their love and devotion to their MAGA God.
Other than eager to rename the Kennedy Middle after Trump, congressional Republicans have additionally launched payments that will put Trump’s face on the $100 invoice, add Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore, and rename Dulles Worldwide Airport in Virginia after him. Different Republicans have moved to appoint Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, the long-elusive honor that Trump is so mad he will not ever get.
The Republican ass kissing of Pricey Chief is actually abdomen churning.
