Trump’s year long effort to take over the Kennedy Center began when he started stuffing the board with sycophants, the more shameless the better.

Within hours of the center’s board ostensibly adding Trump’s name, a construction crew had added the new title to the building.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts adopted new bylaws earlier this year that limited voting to presidentially appointed trustees.

Toby Morton shared a screenshot of the message to Threads, where he wrote: "I'm speechless and incredibly grateful."

Amidst the dust-up over the renaming of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, “The Donald Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts” — with Democrats livid at the renaming — a central fact is missing.

The official logo for the renamed Trump Kennedy Center retains the same design as it did with the previous name, showing a representation of the physical building's architecture with its distinctive vertical columns overlooking the Potomac River in Washington, DC.

Chelsea Handler brought her signature humor to the 2026 Critics Choice Awards, taking aim at the recent renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell raged on social media after Grammy-winning banjo player Béla Fleck became the latest artist to cancel on the venue.