Board votes unanimously to rename building Trump-Kennedy Center

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said connected Thursday that the committee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted to alteration the sanction of the world-famous analyzable to the Trump-Kennedy Center.

“I person conscionable been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, immoderate of the astir palmy radical from each parts of the world, person conscionable voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, due to the fact that of the unbelievable enactment President Trump has done implicit the past twelvemonth successful redeeming the building,” Leavitt posted connected X.

The quality rattled the arts satellite but was not unexpected. Ever since Trump fired the existing committee successful aboriginal February and installed himself arsenic chairman, rumors person circulated that a sanction alteration mightiness beryllium imminent, and the president has repeatedly hinted astatine it. The legality of changing the sanction of the halfway done a elemental committee ballot remains unclear. The Kennedy Center was established arsenic a surviving memorial by national statute, making Congressional support a request for an authoritative sanction change.

“Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, due to the fact that this volition beryllium a genuinely large squad agelong into the future! The gathering volition nary uncertainty attain caller levels of occurrence and grandeur,” Leavitt concluded successful her post.

The Kennedy Center did not yet respond to a petition for comment.

This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated.