As we mentioned, the Kennedy Center Board of Directors voted to add President Donald Trump’s name to the center after his efforts to help restore the iconic arts venue.
Today, we proudly unveil the updated exterior design – a tribute to the leadership of President Donald J. Trump and the enduring legacy of John F. Kennedy. 🇺🇸
Donald J. Trump Center and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts pic.twitter.com/ALEE59pkZ9
—Trump Kennedy Center (@Kennedy) December 19, 2025
🔥 🔥 Workers were seen celebrating after installing the name “Trump” on the Trump Kennedy Center building.
– Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 19, 2025
But it’s a bit like the craziness of the White House ballroom. Trump gets a free dance floor that the nation can use forever, and Democrats attack. Adding Trump’s name is their current excuse for melting down, and people on the right are enjoying the tantrums.
The hot takes on the left were something to behold, starting with this guy who said he was based in Washington, D.C., but thought “democracy died today” because of it.
Hysterical leftist melts over President Trump’s name hanging on the Kennedy Center.
“I feel like democracy is dead today. We should all be shocked that a convicted criminal, thug and con man put his name on top of a national monument!”pic.twitter.com/82ntSethh6
– Media Research Center (@theMRC) December 19, 2025
I didn’t know democracy died because Trump saved the Kennedy Center. We are not a pure democracy for a reason; We are a constitutional republic.
Then there was Jim Acosta, the former CNN personality, who lost his mind. This is funny, because he is reporting from the “crime scene”. He turned off his comments on X, so he wouldn’t hear from people laughing at him.
Reporting the crime scene. Trump has put his name on the Kennedy Center. But we’ll never call it the Trump-Kennedy Center: pic.twitter.com/DFlabMjZPJ
– Jim Acosta (@acosta) December 19, 2025
Who do you report to anyway? Trump broke it.
Kennedy Center President Rick Grenell had a little fun with him.
Welcome to the Trump Kennedy Center, Jim. https://t.co/8hGMbnAl1F
-Richard Grinnell (@RichardGrinnell) December 19, 2025
White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson suggested that the media may have been trying to distract attention from some of the other images that were dropped on Friday.
CNN and MSDNC are back live over the Trump Kennedy Center. They *really* don’t want to talk about this photo of Bill Clinton. pic.twitter.com/jGONCnrW6S
– Abigail Jackson (@ATJackson47) December 19, 2025
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Then came the downfall for some members of the Kennedy family, including Maria Shriver, who said she was named after her uncle.
The Kennedy Center is named after my uncle, President John F. Kennedy. It was named in his honor. He was a man interested in the arts, interested in culture, interested in education, language and history. He brought the arts to the White House, and he and my Aunt Jackie… pic.twitter.com/wcGjTp2uqa
– Maria Shriver (@mariashriver) December 18, 2025
But that’s when Grinnell flagged her down, saying the building was collapsing and they wouldn’t help her at all.
The place was literally falling apart and she was no help – at all.
Where have you been, Maria? I was completely silent as the building collapsed.
Donald Trump had to step in and save her because you didn’t help.
You should thank him. https://t.co/ngBPNkrf4w
-Richard Grinnell (@RichardGrinnell) December 18, 2025
Democrats want to talk, but Trump is the one doing the work to restore the building. If they cared so much, where were they?
We’ve written before about how Grenell discovered the dire state the center’s finances were in as well.
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Kerry Kennedy, the sister of Robert Kennedy Jr., even threatened to take a “pick” to the letters bearing Trump’s name on the building at the end of Trump’s term. She also cut off comments.
Three years and one month from today, I’ll get a pickaxe and drag those letters out of that building, but I’ll need help carrying the ladder. Are you in? I am applying for my carpenter card today and it will be a union job!!! pic.twitter.com/ZLPhd7fU31
– Kerry Kennedy (@KerryKennedyRFK) December 19, 2025
Except, of course, there’s a little problem with confirming it. She believes she will be able to do so after Trump’s term ends. But what will you do if President J.D. Vance is next?
Once again, Grinnell did some teaching, saying she should be thanking them instead.
The place has been left in ruins over the years.
Financially and physically.
You have to thank President Trump for saving him. https://t.co/Q0ctZ7NF8X
-Richard Grinnell (@RichardGrinnell) December 19, 2025
The center is a public institution, not a family-owned entity.
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