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WASHINGTON IS BEING LITERALLY REBRANDED. In a brazen act of historical erasure, workers were caught on camera Friday SCRAPING the hallowed name of President John F. Kennedy from America’s premier cultural center to REPLACE IT with the name of a LIVING, CONTROVERSIAL president. The move, rammed through by a board Donald Trump himself now chairs, marks the “The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts”—a SHOCKING fusion that has ignited a firestorm of outrage.
This is not mere renovation; it is a SYSTEMATIC TAKEOVER. The very website was altered in real-time to “The Trump Kennedy Center,” as if the legacy of a martyred Democratic president is now a mere appendage. This follows Trump’s purge of 18 Biden-appointed trustees and the renaming of the U.S. Institute of Peace in his own image. The pattern is UNAMBIGUOUS: a wholesale looting of federal institutions for personal aggrandizement.
Defenders cite Trump’s fundraising, but critics see a FAR MORE SINISTER AGENDA. Maria Shriver, JFK’s own niece, blasted the “beyond comprehension” decision, while Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty alleges she was SILENCED and the vote was NOT unanimous. This is how norms DIE—not with a bang, but with a forklift hoisting golden letters in the dead of night.
The board’s rubber-stamp approval, under the shadow of Trump’s leadership, signals that NO AMERICAN ICON IS SAFE from the cult of personality. It begs the harrowing question: When the pillars of memory themselves are for sale, what, truly, remains of the republic? The past is being rewritten before our eyes, and the future is being branded with a single, inescapable name.
