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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n Reporter: \u201cShe just posted on X, your press secretary, [Karoline Leavitt,] that the board members of the Kennedy Center voted unanimously to rename it the Trump-Kennedy Center. What is your reaction to that?\u201d \u201cWell, I was honored by it. The board is a very distinguished board, most distinguished people in the country, and I was surprised by it. I was honored by it.\u201d \u201cThank you very much, everybody. And I\u2019ll tell you what: the Trump-Kennedy Center, I mean \u2014\u201d [laughs] \u201cKennedy Center \u2014 I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m sorry.\u201d [cheers] \u201cWow, this is terribly embarrassing.\u201d \u201cThey don\u2019t have the power to do it. Only Congress can rename the Kennedy Center. How does that actually help the American people, who\u2019ve already been convinced that Donald Trump is not focused on making their life better? The whole thing is extraordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n President Trump\u2019s handpicked board of trustees announced that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts would be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center, a change that may need Congress\u2019s approval.<\/span><\/p>\n By Axel Boada<\/p>\n December 19, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: Kennedy Center Board Votes to Add Trump to Its Name transcript Back transcript Kennedy Center Board Votes to Add Trump to Its Name President Trump\u2019s handpicked board of trustees announced that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts would be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center, a change that may need Congress\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1137,1286,2110,4818,81,840],"class_list":{"0":"post-38244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-add","9":"tag-board","10":"tag-center","11":"tag-kennedy","12":"tag-trump","13":"tag-votes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Kennedy Center Board Votes to Add Trump to Its Name<\/h2>\n
President Trump\u2019s handpicked board of trustees announced that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts would be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center, a change that may need Congress\u2019s approval.<\/h4>\n