"There's no question that this is not legal."
President Donald Trump’s hand-picked John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts board voted unanimously yesterday to rebrand the cultural institution as the “Trump-Kennedy Center.” Unfortunately for the president, this change won’t come as easily as slapping his name on a smartphone or a Bible.
The statute that established the center as a memorial to President Kennedy in 1964 “explicitly names it the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,” says Georgetown law professor David Super, meaning the moniker is legally baked into the facility’s very existence. Because the center’s name is codified in US law, a board of trustees vote won’t cut it; an act of Congress is needed to tack on the “Trump.”
House Republicans have been toying with this project since the summertime. One proposal introduced in July, the Make Entertainment Great Again Act, would rechristen the institution the “Donald J. Trump Center for Performing Arts.” Such a measure would be a “completely adequate” means of legally changing the center’s name, Super says, should it advance through Congress.
Until then, however, any changes to the center’s name are unofficial. “The other way of accomplishing a renaming is to hire somebody with a hammer and a chisel,” Super adds. “But it wouldn’t be legal.” We’ve seen this film before, in fact: Consider, for example, the Department of War or the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace—which have never been established through an official legal channel and essentially function as colloquialisms, used mostly by the administration itself.
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So the name change is pretty much imaginary, from a legal perspective. But it is real in the sense that it presents the potential for further damage to the center’s integrity and the resulting condition of its employees. As usual, though, don’t hold your breath expecting the Trump administration to face any legal consequences for this.
“There’s no question that this is not legal, but it is not at all clear that anyone has standing to sue him over it,” Super says. Not even members of the dynastic Kennedy family, who have already expressed their unequivocal disgust with the move? No, not even those guys. “The fact that somebody might be offended by this change—even the fact that someone is a descendant of President Kennedy and feels that he’s being slighted—is not necessarily going to be enough to get someone into court.”
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Trump has broken the law again. What did people think a convicted felon would do when he became president and was given immunity by the SCOTUS for acts committed in his official capacity as POTUS?
They gave a man who's been a cheat, a liar, a fraudster, and all-around sleaze-bag for his entire life permission to be all that on steroids as the most powerful person on the planet.
The Kennedy family has spoken out about this insult to the memory of John F. Kennedy, our 35th president who was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and whose name was given to the Memorial Center for the Performing Arts by an act of Congress. Trump could care less about the insult to the Kennedy family, the American people, and the law.
Since Trump has deteriorated into a squalid orange-faced Id enabled by his feckless lackeys, we'll see more and more of this corroding narcissistic behavior from him, and it will only get worse.
I will NEVER forget what the Republican Party let this wreck of a human being do to our country.
Clue me in - is this N Korea or the United States?
ReplyDeleteIn addition to being a convicted felon, adjudicated sexual assaulter , a liar, a cheat, a fraudster, a serial adulterer, add Vandal to what Trump is! He has vandalized a memorial to our 35th president and broken the law! In a sane country, we would have thrown his orange backside in jail by now. But America is not sane, it’s a crazy country, under the vandal, Trump.
DeleteThis is ridiculous. That sign will need to be removed by the next Democratic president, of course. Unless democracy ends in America, I think it's almost guaranteed the next potus will be a Democrat.
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Trump put his name on a building that memorialized a deceased POTUS. It appears that Trump believes he’s among the nonliving! And too damn dumb to understand what he did. He’s the laughing star of the world.
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ReplyDeletepresidency. What have we wrought ?
I'm not so certain. Three more years of illegal and unethical behavior by Turd Man and sycophants and it is likely Amrtican democracy is killed and buried. The goal of authoritarian conservatives forever.
ReplyDeleteRev. Dr. Chuck Currie: “Renaming the Kennedy Center the Trump-Kennedy Center is yet another example of Donald Trump’s small-mindedness and fragile ego. Renaming national institutions after yourself is also the act of petty dictators. Don’t forget, this is the same man who has demanded his face be placed on Mt. Rushmore and on money. Trump knows that history will not treat him kindly. Terrified that no one will name anything for him after he passes - except maybe a prison - his weak nature demands acts of fidelity to bolster his self-esteem. Each day, the evidence that the president of the United States is in the midst of a pronounced mental health crisis grows.”
ReplyDeleteTrump has no core. He values little but humself and his money. His lack of compassion and empathy for the struggle and suffering of others exemplifies the hollowness of his being. Trump will not be admired for his legacy. He knows deep down where his rot resides that he will be but a footnote in history. That nothing he has ever done with his life, or is doing will be worth remembering. Except for its value in showing future generations of Americans what NOT to do.
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