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Kennedy Center Board Member Who Opposed New Trump Name Claims She Was ‘Muted’ During Vote: ‘This Was Not Unanimous’

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  1. Silent-Resort-3076 on

    **This makes me SICK to see his name included with Kennedy!**

    Snippet:

    * Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex-officio board member, accused the White House of lying about having unanimous support to rename the Kennedy Center after Trump, saying she was “not allowed to speak or voice my opposition”
    * Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty is **accusing** White House press secretary **Karoline Leavitt** of misleading the public about the level of support behind renaming the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump.
    * Beatty, who has an automatic seat on the Kennedy Center board as a congressional leader, spoke out after Leavitt announced on Thursday, Dec. 18, that the board had just voted “unanimously” to change the name of the John F. Kennedy Memorial for the Performing Arts to the “Trump-Kennedy Center.”
    * “I’m sitting here in my congressional office in Washington, D.C., just ending a call with the Kennedy Center, where I serve as an ex-officio member,” Beatty, 75, said in a video posted to X. “I am bringing this to you live today because what you may hear is that there was a unanimous vote to rename the Kennedy Center, the Trump Center.”
    * **”Be clear: I was on that call, and as I tried to push my button** to voice my concern, to ask questions and certainly not to vote in support of this, I was muted. Each time I tried to speak, **I was muted.** Participants were not allowed to voice their concerns who were online, yet it was said at the end it was a unanimous vote,” she continued.
    * “Clearly the Congress has a say in this. This center, the Kennedy Center, was created by the Congress,” the Ohio congresswoman added. “I think it’s important for us to know that this is just another attempt to evade the law and not let the people have a say.”

  7. Interesting-Risk6446 on

    It requires Congress to change the name. All this is, is trolling. The site is part of a memorial to JFK. It does feel like North Korea.

  8. faith_apnea on

    Have some respect.

    Remove the Kennedy name if you’re going to fake your way into the center’s legacy.

  9. No_Trade3571 on

    No one will call it the Trump-Kennedy Center just like no one calls it Mt McKinley or Gulf of America.

  11. Gaurdian21 on

    Just another show that our entire administration is a thug group that uses abusive and manipulative tactics for its gains. They are operating as criminals, no where close to an actual government.

  14. Thought-Ladder on

    Not surprised. Trump has the mentality of a toddler hitting a sugar crash with a mom literally willing to give in to whatever the kid wants so he doesn’t cry and shit himself from crying. Trump is the biggest pussy alive. What a sad fuck.

  15. PowerResponsibility on

    This is why decent people in positions of power need to stop quitting as a form of protest.

    Not that I even specifically recall that happening in this case, but I’ve heard about it in many other organizations and it only leads to a power vacuum and even more of this kind of garbage.

    Tough it out and fight back.

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