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Salon
Salon
Lifestyle
CK Smith

Kennedy Center culture war is now online

President Donald Trump continue pushing to reshape the Kennedy Center, including an attempt at renaming and touting Trump-branded upgrades. Now, a writer from the long-running animated adult comedy show “South Park” has stepped in with a quieter but pointed move: buying up domain names tied to the Trump-associated version of the arts institution.

According to Variety, the writer purchased multiple web domains referencing the “Trump Kennedy Center,” preempting what many observers assumed would become part of a broader branding effort. The move comes amid Trump’s recent public fascination with leaving his mark (and name) on the cultural landmark, including a Truth Social post boasting about “marble armrests” he described as “unlike anything ever done or seen before.”

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