IN THE COMMENTS: Fred Drinkwater said: "The name change was a deliberate 'last straw' intended to provoke this judicial response."
That really does make the most sense. It was insanely hamhanded. I'm going to assume he didn't want to fix this place, and the best — or most entertaining — way to avoid blame for letting it rot was to bait a judge into preventing him from saving it.
ADDED: There's a new piece up at WaPo now, "Trump’s name may come off the Kennedy Center. He could still destroy it. The Kennedy Center saga encapsulates all of the needless destruction of the Trump administration. The center’s troubles may not be over yet." That's by Philip Kennicott. Key insight: "The worst thing Trump could do right now is nothing, simply remain chair and let the center languish. He could decline to authorize budgets or renovations, leave the calendar empty or pocket plans for recovery. The center would be stuck in perpetual suspended animation.... His angry messages since the court ruling prove without a doubt what has been obvious all along: He never cared for the center, for the arts or culture...."
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Federal District Court judges appointed by Democrats: why we can’t have nice things.
All I see in the Kennedy Center nonsense, the reflecting pool, and the East Wing is an effort by people in the WH to keep Trump occupied.
Let it rot. No more Congressional appropriations. The DC Dem elites can fund it.
Free Trump!
The law is whatever a judge says it is, and judges are whoever the politicians say they are. I can’t see the point in discussing the cargo cult justice produced by the corrupt class of politicians it is our fate to endure today.
I had to destroy the village in order to save it.
“ Some opponents argued the action desecrated President John F. Kennedy’s legacy.”
The Bay of Pigs legacy? The Igna Binga legacy? The Judith Exner legacy? The Mimi Alford legacy?
What legacy are we talking about?
I think it was the nepotism they miss most, Dave.
JFK’s legacy went into a death spiral and crashed. I guess Democrat judges want the same for anything named after him.
It's nice that Trump wants to renovate the Kennedy Center, isn't it. I support that, because he is very good at getting stuff like that done. But there are two things that he should not be allowed to do with it.
If you've ever seen the interior shots of the grotesque rococo decor in his Trump Tower apartment, you know that he should not be involved in the design of the Kennedy Center redo (even though we all know that he would be in the thick of it).
And then, “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts”! Has there been a more egregious and clumsy manifestation of this man's Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Uh, just no.
WaPo readers still arguing for Trump’s assassination.
“ “What happens next?” Well, he dies and the free world celebrates.”
“Cause for dancing in the streets.”
I thought it was a dumb idea to put Trump's name on it in the first place. I don't know that it was Trump's idea originally, only that the name change was decided by a committee that was appointed by him. Coupled with the bevvy of performers backing out histrionically, for maximum awkwardness, I'd say dump it and forgo the restoration; let it molder and rot with minimal maintenance. Some would say, a fitting legacy for JFK, but I wouldn't.
I would say it's a fitting legacy for the petty-minded that would put up such obstacles, and I think that is the nature of the trap.
This guy is getting lost. Lost in the ozone.
I was in the Kennedy Center around 2007. My first impression was it was a threadbare dump.
Likewise with the White House ballroom. Let it continue to be an unfinished construction site. Looking a gift horse in the mouth should have consequences.
The name change was a deliberate "last straw" intended to provoke this judicial response.
…if political football now counts as a serious plank for one of our former major political parties I say Republicans resist by filling the shitty building with rounded up ICE illegals and rename it the Obama Biden Alinky Fucktard Pig Fucker Detention Center… then make them print it in their propaganda papers
They should name it for a martyr. How about the Ashli Babbitt Center for the Arts?
Dave Begley writes: “What happens next?” Well, he dies and the free world celebrates.”
It is going to be a warm up celebration for an event later in the century when the world buries the last Baby Boomer!
I got a preview here in Paris last night when Paris Saint Germain won the football championship. The ground literally shook! The young spectators went wild!
Its a grift factory like everything the Dems touch
Brinkema doesnt really care about the condition of the facility
Trump has a solution:
“I have instructed the Department of Commerce to make all necessary arrangements with Congress to allow a full and complete transfer of this Institution, giving them the responsibility for its Operation, Maintenance, and Management.”
Yeah, except congress doesn’t have the constitutional authority and power to operate anything. Not National Airport and not the Kennedy Center. I presume Trump knows or was told this. But he does things his own way - mostly by talking and getting his opponents to react and flail about upon his mere words.
I'm reminded of the words of another great builder:
“I am leaving it as I found it. Take over. It’s yours.”
-Ellis Wyatt
John Henry
I don't blame Trump. Again, we have a handful of unelected leftwing Lawyers in black robes running the Executive branch with the silent approval of the R Senate and House. Its insanity fair.
We cannot replace lawyers and judges with AI fast enough.
The entire profession is a cancer at this point.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...
All I see in the Kennedy Center nonsense, the reflecting pool, and the East Wing is an effort by people in the WH to keep Trump occupied.
Democrats want the United States to be a 3rd world country.
They are just stupid corrupt barbarians and they are the reason we cannot have nice things.
Quayle, Trump could simply fire the board members he appointed and reappoint the board members he fired. Or ask Congress to give him a new list of appointees.
Otto is as myopic as mr magoo
Even sane leftists have been posting on social media how much nicer DC looks now that Trump is cleaning the place up. Fountains that had not worked in 20+ year are sparkling clean and flowing once again. This is his wheelhouse. They are hurting themselves. Trump would have had this place beautified and reopened before leaving office, then they could have taken over. Instead it will be a disaster for another 20 years.
A monument to the entertainment industry's rot on the east coast that will match Hollywood's rot on the west. Let the liberals who think they know more than everyone else eat cake....
Sorry, but Trump knows Congress is incapable of tying their shoes. And the left doesn't know how to run a lemonade stand, so much so that they'd turn it (and the Kennedy Center) over to unaccountable NGOs and Somalis.
Addendum to the JFK legacy.
To my mind, the greatest thing JFK did was to start the battle for Black civil rights. He succeeded at the University of Alabama against George Wallace. On our trip to AL last week, we visited the "stand in the schoolhouse door." I was really moved. A great success and Alabama is better for that victory.
But consider that in 2026, many Dem states continue to take the Confederate position that federal law is not supreme. Just this month, the DOJ sued MN seeking to enjoin the MN AG from continuing his climate change lawsuit against oil and gas companies.
And, of course, MN thinks ICE has no authority to enforce federal immigration laws in MN. I heard a student in my daughter's law school class claim that the Twin Cities suffered a "federal occupation."
"...Yeah, except congress doesn’t have the constitutional authority and power to operate anything...."
Oh. Does the President have such authority?
Milo Minderbinder said...
Sorry, but Trump knows Congress is incapable of tying their shoes. And the left doesn't know how to run a lemonade stand, so much so that they'd turn it (and the Kennedy Center) over to unaccountable NGOs and Somalis.
At least 400 members of congress are traitors and belong in jail or should be executed.
The obvious insider trading is one of the most egregious examples of corruption in a long time and completely undermines faith in the system.
The executions should be public and brutal and taught to 6th graders for generations.
Aggie said...
"...Yeah, except congress doesn’t have the constitutional authority and power to operate anything...."
Oh. Does the President have such authority?
Only if the Supreme Court says he has such authority.
It is right there in Article 69.0.1 of the Constitution between Marbury v. Madison and Justice Roberts sphincter.
The obvious insider trading is one of the most egregious examples of corruption in a long time and completely undermines faith in the system.
Are you including Trump as one of the insider traders?
At least 400 members of congress are traitors and belong in jail or should be executed.
That is 3/4 of the congress. You make Stalin look like an underachiever.
The problem with judges is they are college-educated.
Prove me wrong.
The executions should be public and brutal and taught to 6th graders for generations.
Jacobin: A person who gets a two-inch hard-on fantasizing about murdering their fellow citizens.
Earnest, a well known leftist, is upset at the idea of executing Congresscritters? Isn't that every leftists dream to execute every Republican in DC?
New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof's Wife, Recently Appointed Vice Chair of Harvard Board of Overseers, Is a Member of a Beijing-Aligned Group Linked to Chinese Government https://share.google/jUMVTK4dqad9FRhDT
Name it after the judge. Put a large sign in front of it with the judge’s picture indicating he’s now in charge of maintenance.
Jacobin: A person who gets a two-inch hard-on fantasizing about murdering their fellow citizens.
Indeed, they are much nicer when they only want to falsely imprison others then tax them at a 100% for supporting the unapproved person, right?
Just let it fall apart just like the democrats let the rest of dc. Focus on monuments that stuck up democrats won’t enjoy anyway. From what I have seen if you polled actual people and not Washington post democrats you would find they are quite pleased with trumps works.
“Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...
All I see in the Kennedy Center nonsense, the reflecting pool, and the East Wing is an effort by people in the WH to keep Trump occupied.”
Obviously you do not live there and do not know what a cesspool democrats had allowed it to become.. You are ridiculous.
Other than illegally grifting folks out of their possessions, Trump is incapable of doing anything at all that is better than anyone else - except, of course, of deliberately telling lies.
Who is pushing to murder ceos cops and soldiers look in the mirror
Look at alexandria or butler or palm beach or dc hotel et al
narciso: New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof's Wife, Sheryl WuDunn, has collaborated professionally with her husband in the past. The two won the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 1990 for their on-the-ground coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the military crackdown that followed. Factual reporting hardly makes WuDunn a member of a "Beijing-Aligned Group Linked to the Chinese Government," no matter what the Washington Free Beacon implies.
Earnest Prole said...
The executions should be public and brutal and taught to 6th graders for generations.
Jacobin: A person who gets a two-inch hard-on fantasizing about murdering their fellow citizens.
retard: someone who is stupid and has nothing to say except stupid snark lines he thinks are smart.
Better the destruction of an institution than any credit being given to Trump. (Part 7,390)
If Trump wants a winning DC issue, he should endorse renaming the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River. Wilson was a segregationist, essentially a eugenicist, and overall horrible person who would be canceled to death today in the Democrat Party, and quite deservedly.
He should propose naming it after any famous Black Republicans, from Hiram Revels to Harriet Tubman, Walter Williams to Clarence Thomas. Heck, Jackie Robinson would be a better memorial bridge name than Wilson.
Earnest, a well known leftist, is upset at the idea of executing Congresscritters?
Leftists say many insulting things but “Jacobin micro-penis” is not one of them.
Vance said...
Earnest, a well known leftist, is upset at the idea of executing Congresscritters? Isn't that every leftists dream to execute every Republican in DC?
He isn't a leftist.
He is a nothing who has nothing to say so spends his hours coming up with 10-14 word responses to everything snarkily commenting on people who actually think to make himself fell like he is smart.
I'm not sure Trump was doing 4D chess and provoking a judicial overreaction. He understands that politics is downstream from culture, and he wants the governmental cultural instruments to reflect real American majority culture, not elite culture. Look at what he did with PBS, VoA, etc. His lawsuits against the MSM and his use of Truth Social and Musk's X are part of the same effort.
So I think he really wanted the KC to reflect what most Americans like. Look at his KC Honors, for example. I don't know why he wanted to do the physical renovation first. I go there all the time, and there are some run-down bits, but nothing to scare away all the high-ticket payers. The private security force has also always been good at keeping the homeless down to single-digit numbers of well-behaved people who sit quietly and watch the free concerts or read. Somehow they know not to go there to fall asleep or scream at the voices.
So Trump could have just focused on booking non-lefty acts. If you book them, the fans will come.
Maybe that's what he'll do with a ban on the renovation and his name off the building, and the do-nothing Congress refusing to take it over.
Not 4D chess, but Art of the Deal ask for the sun and settle for the moon. CC, JSM
Jacobin Micro Penis would be a great name for a punk band. CC, JSM
My care about the Kennedy Center and what happens to it is exactly equal to the benefit I've received from its existence.
"I'm going to assume he didn't want to fix this place"
An assumption that defies reality- Trump was literally trying to fix the place. Good Lord, Althouse, your libtardism is showing.
"Trump was literally trying to fix the place."
Trump is trying to fix a number of things in the city (and facing lots of opposition). The conclusion that he really wasn't trying to fix the Kennedy Center seems... odd.
The Kennedy Center was built in 1971, and as of a few years ago, it hadn't been updated or maintained since. They had dated econo wood decor typical of that era, threadbare upholstery, a stained exterior, a truck-damaged, sagging, and cracked cantilever section over the Rock Creek - Potomac Parkway, etc.
Google Street View shows the wear and tear very well.
A fundamental issue is that it was wedged into an unsuitable riverfront location flanked by a dozen roads and next to the literal Watergate condo complex. That space is suitable for limited access housing and demands cars in a city that relies on the Metro. It has poor access from everywhere. One must ride slow and crowded shuttle busses from the Metro, or walk far longer than dressed-up guests want to walk in sweaty or wet weather.
The suburban venue "The Music Center at Strathmore" in Bethesda is far better in every way (strathmore.org) -- and one block from a Metro station too.
"I'm going to assume he didn't want to fix this place, and the best — or most entertaining — way to avoid blame for letting it rot was to bait a judge into preventing him from saving it."
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. 'Don't throw the Center into the briar patch!'
"Needless destruction of the Trump administration".... Yes, a Democrat Party member wrote that, naturally. Trump is refurbishing the DC area, restoring American manufacturing, returning illegals to their shitholes, remaking the worthless deceitful thieving GOP into a party that serves the voters, and reminding Americans and the world of American exceptionalism, and the same libtard shitheads that cheered on the George Floyd riots and support the Democrat Party members who have laid waste to Los Angeles call that destruction.
JFC, Democrat Party members are upside, backwards, and inside out. They exist in Bizarro world.
john mosby said...
Jacobin Micro Penis would be a great name for a punk band. CC, JSM
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Jacobin Micro Penis would be a great name for female punk band.
FIFY
For a good band name and band, Big Richard is an all female bluegrass band with heaps of talent. They carry the name off well.
Wait a minute.
From the first article: ..."A federal judge issued a ruling this week temporarily blocking key parts of President Donald Trump’s effort to transform the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, throwing the institution’s future into a state of uncertainty.... Trump has made the planned overhaul of the cultural center a priority for his second term...."
From the second, hyperventilating article: "...Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), an ex officio member of the center’s board, brought the case, and she was thrilled.....Audiences and artists who might have held their nose and participated in the organization’s programming felt obliged, on principle, to avoid any patronage or contact..... The Washington National Opera was forced to part ways with the center, and the National Symphony suffered a continuing severe loss of ticket revenue.....the legal judgment halts the looming closure, at least temporarily. ...So, Cooper’s ruling won’t in itself save the Kennedy Center. Only Congress can do that, and Congress can only do that if Trump gets out of the way.....
So a member of the Board of Trustees sues the board? And a judge steps in to halt the renovation that Trump has planned? Because he wants to destroy the JFK Center?
It would appear the whole kerfuffle is about Trump's name being on it, and they're willing to let the place crumble if it just means his name isn't on it.
This one sounds a lot like the 'All Bases Covered' strategy: Trump, the War Criminal when he attacks, and Trump Always Chickens Out when he doesn’t.
I guess they think they're being smart, and maybe they are, compared to the others - in their group.
Sorry Althouse, your "addition" has a typo. It should read "There's a new hit piece..."
I think Trump likes opera more than I do, and I'm a classically trained singer (though not professional in opera or concert, just a well-trained amateur - and my personal preference is for small-ensemble singing).
I understand there was a time when the ordinary folk knew some classical music. And not from Looney Tunes.
I'm sure part of the problem is that the "classical music" repertoire involves way too many dead white men. No matter how beautiful it is, we can't elevate its popularity through exposure, lest we also elevate those dudes.
Democrats are just greedy rotten selfish pieces of shit that want to see the world burn.
When Trump took over the center it was basically bankrupt. They were in debt, maintenance had been neglected, bills couldn't be paid and the gal that ran it was being paid over a million a year. So fuck it. Let's see the hands of those citizen taxpayers who have ever attended a function there.
Like everything in DC BT (before Trump) the Center was neglected, had its budget raided by democrats and allowed to fall into disrepair. Unlike fountains and sculptures the NPS couldn’t step in and fix it. The board Trump appointed has been thwarted because the Uniparty prefers decline to any possible Trump triumph, even if we the people get shafted in the process.
Yeah, except congress doesn’t have the constitutional authority and power to operate anything.
LOL they are supposed to be in charge of the entire D of C!
He should haver re-named it after Jackie Onassis. That would create an interesting response.
As much as I like Trump, and approve of his policies, and hugely enjoy it when he baits the leftist scum and they fall for it yet again, I don't agree that this was part of his plan all along. He's a master of brazenly making the best of things, and getting both his friends and enemies to believe he's rooked the gullible lefty doofuses one more time, but deep down I think he'd be pleased if it really did become the Trump Center. However, it's time to let it go.
I'm glad he'll have the Trump Ballroom to be a permanent burr under the Left's saddle. It will not be torn down, and strained attempts by the Democrats to force everyone to use whatever bullshit name they give it in future will fail.
But I don't care about what name the Kennedy Center ends up with, and I really would prefer not to have a living person's face on our currency and coinage, particularly if they are still in office. Trump has a lot of other fish to fry besides these entertaining sideshows and vanity projects.
Get to it, Mr. President! You don't need to worry about monuments. There's an aircraft carrier with your name on it, some red-state airports and streets and schools, and perhaps a coin or bill if Republicans get the hegemony I expect due to demographic realities. The name of Trump will still be spoken ten thousand years from now, in the same breath as Caesar and Napoleon, especially if we have to fight a historic and devastating civil war against the enemy Democrats to protect ourselves from their vicious communist tyranny.
Democrats could F up a bowl of Corn Flakes, even if you spotted them the milk, the spoon, the bowl and the cereal.
Democrats are petty, trivial, and thin-skinned little tyrants who use the courts like a condom.
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