In an attempt to have President Donald Trump’s name removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Democratic US Representative Joyce Beatty has launched a lawsuit. The Kennedy Center’s board, which Trump filled with supporters, decided last week to rename the performing arts facility the Trump-Kennedy Center.
Under U.S. law, Beatty is one of several Democratic members of Congress appointed to the board. In her case, she argued that the renaming was unlawful since “an act of Congress” was needed to change the name. According to the lawsuit, Beatty sought to speak out against the name change during the meeting but was silenced.
Congress wanted the center to serve as a “living memorial” to former President Kennedy, according to Beatty. During scenes that are more representative of authoritarian regimes than the American republic – the sitting President and his handpicked loyalists renamed this storied center after President Trump,” the complaint claims.
The White House claimed that Trump had “stepped up” and saved the Kennedy Center “by strengthening its finances, modernizing the building, and ending divisive woke programming” in a statement given to the BBC.
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