Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center — Page 24

I doubt much would come of it, but I think a case could be made that the board members are violating their Duty of Obedience, one of the three basic responsibilities of nonprofit board members. Here is how BoardSource, the leading authority on nonprofit boards, defines it:

"The duty of obedience requires board members to comply with the applicable federal, state, and local laws, adhere to the organization’s bylaws and policies, and serve as guardians of the organization’s mission. It also includes honoring donor intent. Some states have additional requirements or different titles."

For what it's worth--and maybe it's nothing--the board can't "decide" this. Only Congress can. Whether Congress will roll over for Trump, again, or if recent rebellions suggest they are sick of being his lapdog (not because they have a conscience, it just isn't as good for their election chances, anymore) is something we will have to wait to see.

With a sycophant like Grenell "leading" the Kennedy Center, I imagine new signage and other embellishments honoring Trump are likely regardless of any Congressional action.

"Congress is less the issue here than the media. Renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War also requires an act of Congress, but the mainstream media still rolled over for that because they like Trump and find him entertaining to cover."

Really did not know the NY Times, ABC, NBC, CBS etc. like Trump -lol

Vile and repugnant. It’s of course illegal, but he knows Congress isn’t gonna stop him.


He can well put his name in big letters over Kennedy’s and pretend all he wants that he ‘saved’ the center. I’m sure somewhere in the recesses of his mind he must know that his name will be ripped off the building probably within hours of the next President taking office.

James885 said: "Vile and repugnant. It’s of course illegal, but he knows Congress isn’t gonna stop him."

It's in the works for January when Congress resumes.

Senator vows amendment to remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center

#notmypresident

Updated On: 12/21/25 at 04:24 PM

American College Theatre Festival suspends affiliation with Kennedy Center

On CBS, it was still the Kennedy Center Honors

https://wapo.st/4b0tZD6 (gift link)

Critics want Trump to follow through on his 'really good' Kennedy Center Honors pitch

Yesterday Trump posted this:



Today, social media is responding:

• one user on X who advised him not to “threaten us with a good time.”
• “You had me at "leave the Presidency””
• “Yes. Just Truman Show this jacksss to get him out of our lives.”
• “Just build him a fake set like the Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets the Merv Griffin set out of the dumpster and puts it in his apartment and starts "hosting" a fake show”
• "OMG: WHO’S STOPPING YOU????"
• "Without question, the greatest Master of Ceremonies in the history of the world and universe and time. Everyone is saying. Absolutely do it full time."
• "Move him over to the plodding, forced, and thoroughly unfunny Hollywood Squares reboot. Everyone wins! "
• "Have never smashed a "yes" button faster or more enthusiastically"
• "Those files got him contemplating retirement"

#notmypresident

Last Night's Kennedy Center Honors Ratings May Be Lowest Ever, Half as Much as Last Year with Around 3 Million Viewers

https://www.showbiz411.com/2025/12/24/report-last-nights-kennedy-center-honors-may-be-lowest-ever-half-as-much-as-last-year-with-around-3-million-viewers

Christmas Eve Jazz Concert Canceled. "When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday. Redd, a drummer and vibraphone player who has toured with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Ray Brown, has been presiding over holiday Jazz Jams at the Kennedy Center since 2006. As to the illegality of what occurred: The law explicitly prohibits the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person’s name on the building’s exterior.

20 U.S. Code § 76j - Duties of Board

"...No change in the management and operation of the grounds may be made without the express approval of Congress and of the Secretary of the Interior..."

"...the Board shall assure that after December 2, 1983, no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts..."



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/kennedy-center-christmas-eve-jazz-concert-canceled-trump-name-added-rcna250894?fbclid=IwY2xjawO5gZRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe3ovOhCzC2VwMAbzc3fccl1FpB4UpKQ8-Kd2NZQy4IN-kgF7cdf0Cmhp4Rv0_aem_lCqT6V68p37PwLngOU9ETw

Updated On: 12/24/25 at 09:32 PM

Auggie27 said: "Christmas Eve Jazz Concert Canceled. "When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday."

I sort of "get" that our government works slowly, but the Kennedy Center is a national memorial and cultural center that has been vandalized.

Where were the D.C. police as this was happening? Why weren't those workers arrested on the spot? Did any citizen of D.C that witnessed the vandalization happening in real time call for police? Why aren't the board (and Trump for that matter) in jail for instigating the damage?

I'm not necessarily a fan of anthropomorphizing inanimate objects, but the biggest victim of this crime is the Kennedy Center and its reputation. It is undeservedly being shunned and ostracized.

Its purpose to serve both as a cultural center for the American people, and to memorialize one, specifically designated president has been corrupted.

If that isn't vandalism, I don't know what is.

Wouldn't it be great if somehow, just like Al Capone, Trump were brought down by a simple, underestimated crime like tax evasion... or vandalism?