The decision appears to be aimed at circumventing a federal judge’s order to remove separate signage bearing the president’s name.

The Kennedy Center’s board voted Thursday to inscribe President Donald Trump’s name into the storied building’s white marble facade and proceed with a lengthy shutdown of the venue to accommodate an extensive $250 million renovation project, according to ex officio member Rep. Joyce Beatty.

The decision comes just months after a judge ruled that separate signage bearing the president’s name had to be taken off the building’s marquee. The new inscription will test the order, though due to ongoing litigation the judge has the power to delay the projects.

The board, which Trump fired en masse last year and restocked with allies, voted to close the center’s main building, while The Reach, a newer expansion to the facility, will remain open for limited events. It will also serve as a memorial to former President John F. Kennedy.

No wonder the tarp never came down.

  • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    17 hours ago

    carving into it only means he’ll have to pay more to fix the marble when the time comes

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    16·
    1 day ago

    There must be at least one example where trump accepted no for an answer (but I can’t think of any).

  • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world
    601·
    1 day ago

    The next President should expunge trump from all associations with the presidency. All of his appointments should be recalled and everything he’s done should be rolled back. That includes the SCOTUS (especially the SCOTUS) and all thier subsequent “decisions.” A line must be drawn to inform the next demigouge that their fuckery will NOT be tolerated.

    • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      10 hours ago

      Part of the tragedy of the MAGA era is that much of what he’s done cannot be undone, including America’s place in the world order. America will never be the same and will either rise to a fascist dictatorship or fall from its place as the world last superpower.

    • quarkquasar@lemmy.world
      44·
      1 day ago

      Wipe out the last 40 years of heritage foundation rot, or we may as well kiss this shitty country good bye

        • quarkquasar@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 day ago

          Whoa, hey now, watch your tone when you talk about the country that elected an ancient felonious pedophile to its highest office not once, but two times, because he didn’t get enough crimes done the first time.

      • hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip
        1·
        20 hours ago

        I have ideas about what to do with Heritage Foundation HQ. Like providing a fine display of whimsical pyrotechnics, while all of their top reps and billionaire friends are inside having a wonderful “charity gala.” My, they’ll never taste such fine caviar again!

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
      18·
      1 day ago

      This is part of their strategy, because if a Democrat did win, the expectation is that they would, at best, follow typical procedure and it would take years and they would have people delay and maybe even turn it into a wedge in a subsequent election.

      trump will not leave office without knowing what it is like to press the red button though. Doesn’t seem like there will be a next attempt at anything.

    • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 day ago

      This is absolutely true. But it’s also probably a permanent degradation of our government.

      It’s like Mexico. When corruption becomes endemic in the government, because (like Trump) you’ve fired the neutral government career folks and replaced them with political loyalists who don’t care about actually administering the law, then the next election they get replaced, but because they’re now “in play,” they never again survive administration changes.

      So there’s a purge every change of administration. And because at least one side is corrupt, don’t be surprised if during the lead-up to the next administration changeover (assuming we can get that far), Trump’s lackeys destroy records across every institution they control, alongside blanket pardons, just to destroy any chance that the incoming administration can function and transition seamlessly.

      The result is no more administrative continuity, chaos and a downward spiral of eroding trust in government.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
        4·
        1 day ago

        The US federal government is a lost cause at this point. States that believe in logical, functional societies will need to replace it with state and local governance, or with interstate compacts.

    • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comEnglish
      116·
      1 day ago

      You sound like Trump talking about Biden or Obama.

      No, Trump got rid of NAFTA. Let’s keep that. I’m sure there’s some other broken clock things too

      • oppy1984@lemdro.idEnglish
        4·
        20 hours ago

        As someone who works in international freight, USMCA is far worse than NAFTA.

          • oppy1984@lemdro.idEnglish
            2·
            10 hours ago

            More red tape, more paperwork, limits on sourcing of materials, increased documentation of sourcing for each piece of a product, and unlike NAFTA the USMCA isn’t permanent and has to be renegotiated from time to time so that introduces tons of uncertainty into the whole industry.

            The only good thing that the USMCA did was mandate wage levels for workers in companies exporting to other member countries. But that could have just been added to NAFTA after some negotiations rather than tearing up the agreement and creating this terrible replacement.

            • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Everything you said sounds good. Regulations are important.

              What sucks about free trade agreements is IMF style requirements that prevent trade unions or law suits or sovereignty for the country to establish regulations

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        2 days ago

        Even if Donnie ends up never being punished, I sure hope the Democrats don’t puss the fuck out on using every tool in the legal arsenal to get every single asshole responsible for shit like this and give them maximum sentences.

        • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          Sounds like you have a purity test you want the democrats to pass. Like you want to be represented. We dont do that here.

          you will get what you are given, you will shut the fuck up, and you will vote blue no matter who.

        • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          192·
          2 days ago

          Don’t worry, they will. Its Schumer and Bookers dream to piss and shit the bed so everything can “return to normal”.

        • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 days ago

          Only if we get rid of the establishment and corporate/AIPAC owned Democrats. And even then only maybe. Trump was allowed to turn ICE into an extremely well funded personal army that doesn’t swear to uphold the Constitution. Even if Democrat Socialists sweep the midterms, it seems likely that will result in him getting even more extreme in ignoring the laws and court orders.

          What happens if he decides to use the imaginary authority he granted himself over revoking citizenship with his last illegal executive order to declare that all the Democrats in congress who weren’t born in the US or had a parent from any country he decides to call an enemy are no longer US citizens and send large groups of ICE goons to kidnap them?

          If anyone else did something like that the President could call on the US Military to defend them, but he clearly wouldn’t do that when he’s the one ordering it. It’s very possible that since so much of the Republican party is fully owned by him, Congress wouldn’t have the votes to do anything against it. If it’s something done quickly and quietly and those representatives are removed before Congress can act they certainly wouldn’t, and even if they managed to and did have the votes the President is still Commander-in-Chief.

          To put the military in a position where obeying him is clearly wrong they’d have to vote to remove him entirely, which would take two thirds of the Senate and by default promote JD Vance to President.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 day ago

    God, when is this fat sack of shit going to die and just go away? I’ve started searching his name every day just looking for an obituary news article. How someone can be so far in mental decline, and people are still lining up to lick his ball sack is beyond me.

    • mangobanana@discuss.online
      1·
      11 hours ago

      He is too stupid to be making all these decisions and actions on his own. Even if he dies the ones controlling him and telling him what to do will still be in power. Believe me Trump is not in control of anything. He is being manipulated and basically being fed to do all these awful things. I hate the fucker but I’ll never believe that he’s really the one in control

      • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 day ago

        Being more competent isn’t hard, more evil will be a challenge, but the real struggle will be finding someone more charismatic to be the central figure maintaining the cult.

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 day ago

      When you or some other person(s) get off your address and get to work. So probably not soon enough

  • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
    59·
    2 days ago

    Holy shit. He wasn’t allowed to change it’s name so he’s doing to have his lackeys carve his name into the the side of the building instead.

    Nothing happening in the US is sane. This person should have been removed from power by the other branches of government a long time ago. The government is nonfunctional to the point I’m very honestly worried that the Democrats sweeping the midterms won’t make any difference.

    • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      If you read today’s news in 1978 you would not believe one word of it - we have very definitely lost the US govt as we knew it. I’d also say the public in general is also less intelligent and increasingly misinformed.

    • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      10 hours ago

      And no system or mechanism, no will or organization of citizens has rallied to stop any of it. America is in civil war right now and the citizens refuse to acknowledge it or are too occupied to be able to do anything about it.

    • sportsjorts@lemmy.zip
      13·
      1 day ago

      Democrats sweeping the midterms is the final check and then it’s all over for the US or we still have a snow ball’s chance in hell.

      • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 day ago

        I think a lot of people still believe that of the Democrats sweep the midterms it will make things better quickly.

        I see that as the only good path, but think it would cause him to become even more unstable and try to claim enough Democrats are no longer citizens based on his last legal executive order to create an R majority… and don’t see many Republicans complaining about it.

        • KeithD@lemmy.nz
          8·
          1 day ago

          If Democrats take all of the senate seats that are up for election, they’ll be able to get the two thirds majority needed to convict him in the senate after impeachment. The odds of that happening are somewhere between slim and none.

          Otherwise, unless some of the Republican senators cross the aisle, you’re stuck with President Trump for the next couple of years assuming he survives.

          • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 day ago

            The problem is that even if the Democrats sweep every possible seat, if that executive order was written with that in mind and he quietly writes something declaring that a lot of those Democrats in Congress are no longer US citizens and large well-armed groups of ice are sent to kidnap a whole lot of them in a surprise raid…

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    74·
    2 days ago

    Defacing a historical monument just to be remembered as the biggest failure and embarrassment in American history but it’s a good way to remind future generations to not make the same mistakes.

  • corbindallas@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago
    1. Brian D. Ballard
    2. Maria Bartiromo
    3. Pamela Bondi
    4. Mary Helen Bowers
    5. Hannah F. Buchan
    6. Robert Castellani
    7. Elaine Chao
    8. Pamella Roland DeVos
    9. Patricia Duggan
    10. John Falconetti
    11. Emilia May Fanjul
    12. Jennifer Fischer
    13. Lynette Friess
    14. Sergio Gor
    15. Pamela Gross
    16. Lee Greenwood
    17. Kate Adamson Haselwood
    18. Laura Ingraham
    19. Dana Kraft
    20. Mindy Levine
    21. Lynda Lomangino
    22. Barbara Long
    23. Allison Lutnick
    24. Douglas Manchester
    25. Laura Perlmutter
    26. Catherine B. Reynolds
    27. Denise Saul
    28. Dan Scavino
    29. Cheri Summerall
    30. Donald J. Trump — Chair
    31. Susie Wiles
    32. Andrea Wynn
    33. Paolo Zampolli
  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    It will also serve as a memorial to former President John F. Kennedy.

    And if that sentence felt like an afterthought just wait until we see this memorial