US EditionGOP Bill Seeks to Rename Kennedy Center for Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C., JUL 29 – The GOP bill seeks to rename the Kennedy Center after Trump amid controversy and a 50% drop in ticket sales, as Republicans push multiple Trump-related cultural changes.
- This past week, Rep. Bob Onder, Republican of Missouri, introduced the Make Entertainment Great Again Act to rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts.
- Earlier this year, House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to rename the Opera House as the First Lady Melania Trump Opera House, while historians say GOP memorial efforts for Trump are almost unprecedented.
- Under current law, Republican lawmakers say the U.S. code governing the Kennedy Center requires new legislation to change its name, as the founding statute prohibits renaming theaters beyond the Eisenhower Theater.
- Critics also say the proposals are partisan stunts, with Jack Schlossberg, Kennedy's grandson, criticizing the plans citing his grandfather’s vision of remembrance.
- Beyond the Kennedy Center, a federal law highlighted by Jack Schlossberg aims to prevent renaming, not a proposal to rename it after Trump.
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