President Donald Trump’s hand-picked Kennedy Center Board has voted to rename the performing arts facility as the Trump-Kennedy Center, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The move is yet another by the second Trump administration to blow past an existing norm or statute, including one that established the name of the facility as the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
“I was honored by it. … It is a very distinguished board, the most distinguished people in the country. And I was surprised by it. I was honored by it,” Trump told reporters Thursday in the Oval Office. “You know, we’ve, we’re saving the building. We saved the building. The building was in such bad shape, both physically, financially and every other way. And now it’s very solid, very strong. … And the Kennedy Center is really, really back strong.”
