President Trump’s Kennedy Center board of directors has alienated artists and angered Kennedy family members by placing the 47th president’s name on a living memorial to the nation’s 35th president — but the comedy writer whose credits include “South Park” and “Mad TV” may have the last laugh.
Toby Morton He said he saw the writing on the wall in August and proactively Purchase the domain names “trumpkennedycenter.org” and “trumpkennedycenter.com” In anticipation of Trump’s move. He said he was tipped off when Trump “started trashing the Kennedy Center board earlier this year” and by the president’s insinuations that he might try to make the center a memorial to himself.
“I thought, yeah, that name is on the building,” Morton told The Washington Post.
Morton, who He describes himself on Instagram as an “anti-fascist website creator.” He previously purchased domain names associated with the likes of Reps. Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene to create parody accounts. When asked if he planned to use the Trump-Kennedy Center sites in a similar way, he said they “perfectly capture the absurdity of the moment.”
“The Kennedy Center has always been a cultural institution intended to outlast any administration or personality,” Morton told the newspaper. “It’s meant to honor culture, not ego. Once it was treated as a personal brand, ridicule became inevitable.”
The Kennedy Center still operates under the domain name kennedy-center.orgalthough the top of its home page refers to the building as the Trump Kennedy Center. But Trump faces legal changes in actually renaming the building, which was official It was called the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Under a law passed by Congress in 1964 after the assassination of John Kennedy.
Trump’s pragmatic approach at the Kennedy Center has met with consequences.
On Wednesday, jazz drummer Chuck Reed canceled the Christmas Eve show he had played there for nearly 20 years after Trump’s team literally added the sitting president’s name to the facade of the building. On Friday, the Trump-appointed head of the Kennedy Center, Richard Grenell, fired Angry letter to Reid, He threatened to sue him for $1 million over the “sudden cancellation.”
After Trump took it upon himself to host the annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala earlier this month, Initial evaluations Tuesday’s broadcast of the event on CBS reportedly showed that the concert was watched by “the smallest audience ever.”
With news wire services